In Bel Ami's Enchanted Forest, George Duroy keeps things light and fun, and he lets his guys get a little raunchier than usual. Take the first scene, featuring Steve Jennings and horse-hung Liam Phoenix. Before the fucking even starts, we get to see Jennings and Phoenix give each other champion blowjobs, each of which end in nice, messy facials--something older Bel Ami titles only rarely contained. In addition, Duroy casts boys who look more and more American. Steve Jennings is a good example, and so is Erik Simon (in the last scene with Alex Orioli), whose square-jawed beauty and crew-cut blond hair make him look like a very, very hunky United States Marine.
Equally striking is newcomer, Ethan Clarke, who breaks two Bel Ami taboos all at once: he has shaggy, unkempt hair in the American slacker-boy style, and his hard stomach sports a very sexy tattoo rung around his navel.
This isn't to say that the usual Duroy touches aren't there. No, it's plain from the very opening--two boys dressed in baggy shorts and sunhats, walking through a lush forest shot with a filter--that this is definitely Duroy's work. And of course, the other B.A. stars, like Mark Aubrey and Brandon Manilow, are here too. In fact, it's really pointless to play-by-play all of the hot action. This is, after all, Bel Ami. That should tell you everything about the impossibly beautiful men, their athletic sex, and the well-photographed attention to detail. Enchanted Forest might be just a bit different from the Bel Ami norm, but that's never a bad thing when their quality norm is already so above the rim.
DVD Extras: Scene Selection Menu; Trailers; Bel Ami Products Advertisement; Promotional Ad For Bel Ami Online.
