This was probably inspired by the “inside the mouth” gag in the LITTLE SHOP OF HORRORS musical. shot inside the man’s rectum to see the tongue flicking around inside.
A farmhand is rimming a tourist and the camera cuts to a P.O.V. I started laughing with a hard dick in my hand (probably my own, but you never know) when I saw a scene from PENSION COMPLETE or A SUMMER OF SEX. TOP MODELS or SEX DRIVE as it was called here, had an amazing scene of a disgruntled fashion photographer who seeks out sex in public, getting fucked in the garden next to the Eiffel Tower at night! Cadinot brought a fantastical quality to even the sleeziest of scenes.Ĭadinot could also often be playful. The scene set in a narrow alley was as exciting visually as it was sexually, with the bottom suspended between the two walls by his feet while taking the top in a wild fuck.
The first film of his that I saw was AIME…COMME MINET or ALL OF ME, as it was released in the U.S., about a young man searching for sex in the seedy streets of Paris. I had seen other videos, of course, but Cadinot’s films (and they WERE films, shot on actual celluloid, not videotape), always had a layer of fantasy to them, an almost fairytale quality, even those set in the city of Paris. Jean-Daniel Cadinot was the first gay porn director who really made an impression on me. I don’t know why TLA stopped this series. TLA released two films, SEX BAZAAR and THE TRAVELING JOURNEYMAN, with no extras (not even a Cadinot interview or commentary), which was disappointing beyond belief, as with many classic discs, because these guys aren’t going to be around forever and no one is preserving their memories or history. is that for some reason he wasn’t soliciting them to DVD companies. I think the problem with Jean-Daniel Cadinot’s work being unavailable in the U.S. Casey Scott April 28th, 2008 at 5:50 AM.Jean-Daniel Cadinot’s Aime Comme Minets (Dennis Cooper’s)Ģ0 responses to Remembering Jean-Daniel Cadinot I hope people reading this who are familiar with his work will take a few minutes to reflect on it in the comments section. “An erect phallus is a symbol of life, a cross a symbol of death.” It’s as fittingly eloquent and thought-provoking as his body of work: Excerpts from this interview are played over a silent visual recreation of the original audition that was shot a number of years later … After the sex scenes were shot, Cadinot waited four years to film the recreation of the audition so that Buisson would look noticeably older in that part of the film than he did in the sex scenes.”Ĭadinot wrote his own eulogy, which was posted on his blog after he died last week. “…the film is structured around an actual audio recording of director Cadinot interviewing a young man named Pierre Buisson during the performer’s first audition for the director. Literally icon Dennis Cooper explained the complex concept behind “Aime Comme Minets” (“All Of Me”) on his blog last year: After working for a mainstream French film company, he started directing porn in 1978 - first as “Tony Dark” and under his real name after 1984.Ī filmmaker and a perfectionist, Cadinot never succumbed to the lure of making a ton of money by churning out titles. He was a true legend and at the forefront of the field since he started making gay porn 30 years ago.Ī teenage runaway, Cadinot studied photography at the prestigious National School of Photography in France. To me one of the saddest things about Jean-Daniel Cadinot’s death is not so much his relatively young age (64) but the fact that his work has become somewhat unknown to gay audiences in the US for reasons I’m having a hard time understanding.