"Manville: The City of Men," another foray into Kristen Bjorn's divine, imaginary world of totally hot men who have totally hot sex in a fantastically realized parallel dimension. Alas, like Shangri-La, "Manville" only exists in Bjorn's imagination. The men who populate this burg represent some of the most splendid ideals of masculinity that Bjorn has ever assembled. They include two of South Africa's chief exports, Jed Willcox and Jason Kingsley, who as tourists can't seem to wait to sample the local color.
It's a testament to the cast that although dialogue is kept to a bare minimum, the intents and aims of each player are carefully delivered throughout. The plot device that brings most of the men together is familiar to Bjorn-watchers: street cruising that leads to group sex in both public and private locations.
The first of these assignations features a trio of men, who are as diverse as they are uniformly attractive: Eric Flower, Paulao do Picao and Alex Ribeiro. Eric's creamy, smooth muscles provide the sparks that get the fire started, but Paulao and Alex stoke the sensual fire as the scene progresses. Eric tries to fit both other stud's massive, uncut dicks in his mouth, a stunning view, as is a later scene with Paulao deep-tonguing Alex's furry buttcrack, filmed in tight close-up. Multiple cum-shots, all of them beautifully captured, figure into the action. Indeed, they are liberally included throughout. With his many tattoos and tight, buff body, Alex makes a splendid and surprisingly adept power-bottom, taking Paulao's massive dick from behind. Later, Eric is on his side and takes Paulao scissor-style while Alex sucks Eric's meat. Like so many moments here, the sensuality here is achingly exquisite.
The next two scenes take us on Jason and Jed's separate erotic tours of the city. In the first, Jed plays a willing participant in his own ravaging by swarthy and ultra-hung stud Jean Franko. The scene begins with Jed getting worked over thoroughly by Jean, and while Jean is plunging into the depths of Jed's insatiable mouth and ass, smoky-eyed Rocky Oliveira watches from an archway fitted with a steel grate. Though Rocky can do little more than look on as Jed and Jean couple in the alley, his erection never flags for a second. But then, he's got a pretty great view of Jed's impressive agility as Jean insistently prongs his ass. This energetic and thrilling scene leads to a three-way in which Rocky plays a more active role. Set in an interior location, the scene features a sensational flip-flop fuck that has Rocky taking it from Jean and then Jean impaling himself on Rocky. The eye-popping action here is one of the highlights of the entire production.
As for Jason, he hits the jackpot, stud-wise, hooking up with three amazing beauties for a sizzling four-way orgy. The scene is structured in an interesting way, too: At first, Matthieu Costa and Marcello Lars voyeuristically enjoy Jason's hook-up with tall beauty Max Veneziano. Max and Jason satiate themselves in a duo that has Jason sucking Max off before he even removes his leather jacket (he does so later, just before Max fucks him doggy), and Matthieu and Marcello, still in hiding, have done the same, with Matthieu sticking it to Marcello from behind while they watch the action inside. The scene then brings all four studs together for a rocking romp in the bedroom. Jason and Marcello take turns sucking off Max and eating Matthieu's hunky butt, leading to the piece-de-resistance, Matthieu impressively getting double-fucked, for a prolonged time. Matthieu makes it look so easy and so enjoyable that everyone will want to try it (well, maybe not everyone).
One of Kristen Bjorn's best finds ever, Xavier Montenegro, takes center stage next. With an exaggerated V-shaped torso, a thick, long, uncut cock, and a face that is handsome as any Milan runway model's, the camera loves this dude (obviously, so do I). A fantasy between lovers, Xavier and David Salazar, that arises after a chance meeting on the street with another great looking couple, Gabriel Ventura and Bruno Din, fuels the action, and from the moment Xavier strips down and releases his long, luscious cock, the action takes off at a breakneck pace and never looks back. First, Xavier urges David to show him how he imagines the other studs would suck him, and later, how they would fuck him. Interspersed with the "real" action between Xavier and David is equally enthralling "imaginary" action between Gabriel and Bruno. In the end, the lines between what is real and what isn't become even blurrier -- but no matter, because it's all completely hot.
A four-man orgy that resembles nothing so much as a game of naked Twister has Italian stallion Matthias Vannelli surrounded by Carlos Caballero, Victor Cowboy and Sergio Castillo. After a kneeling Matthias sucks each in turn, a double-decker fuck is the centerpiece of the scene, with Matthias slipping into Sergio from behind as both straddle Victor, on all-fours, getting his ass reamed by Carlos. There's so much flesh on the screen at times that there is nothing else in the composition of the shot -- talk about your eye candy.
Director Kristen Bjorn can do no wrong as far as I am concerned, but the lushly produced, expertly rendered "Manville: The City of Men" proves that he just keeps getting better and better.
Rating: *** Highly, Highly Recommended ***
-Martin Cox, MANNET
Manville continues the Kristen Bjorn tradition of bringing together the most attractive men with the most amazing bodies and putting them in settings far away from everyday life. Add the highest quality video production and what you get are dreamlike sexual scenes that can make you forget the boyfriend sitting next to you, or silence a whole bar room of horny studs on porn video night.
In this new release, the subtitle "The City of Men" sets the fantasy because nothing stands in the way of the hot cruising studs. The guys seem familiar in their leather jackets and tight jeans.often shirtless.except of course that they.re all great looking. But the setting is all empty streets in a town of old stone walls and buildings. There.s no one around but hot men and once they see each other they are ready for action. Eric Flower is innocently walking down the street (yeah, Eric Flower, innocent) when he is followed by heavily tattooed muscleman Alex Ribeiro and sleek black stud Paulao do Pauzao. They turn into an empty building and Flower goes down on their cocks, back and forth and together. As the guys strip, you see that Ribeiro's tattooed upper body is as massive as Flower's world-class body, and the huge-dicked do Pauzao is all lean, well-defined muscle.
Both of Flower's admirers cum, and then they go down on the big smooth-bodied hunk, do Pauzao sucking his cock while Ribeiro works on his ass. The three-way play continues as do Pauzao fucks Ribeiro while Ribeiro sucks Flower's thick cock. The trio all have multiple orgasms and not always when you'd expect them. Even after cumming twice apiece, they move the action to a bed, do Pauzao now fucking Flower. All three cum a third time, making the scene extra exciting. Don't worry if you personally can't keep up with the orgasms, video fans, because these guys aren't really supermen. Scenes like this are shot in multiple takes. This is not a low-budget motel room video but the ultimate in sexual fantasy. What matters is how great these bodies look together, like your wildest sex dreams coming true.
Jean Franko, one of the most sensual-looking studs ever, is followed on the street by Jed Willcox. Hiding around a corner, Franko overpowers his stalker and shoves him to his knees. Willcox dives for Franko's huge dick and doesn't mind his trash talk either. This is all happening in broad daylight but, hey, this is Manville. Rocky Oliveira sees this from his house and appears at his open window naked and hard. After Franko cums, he has Willcox suck Oliveira through the window while he fucks him. Both those guys cum, but this is just a warm-up. Inside Oliveira's beautiful apartment, the threeway spins in all directions, with all three getting fucked before it's over.
The scenes of picture perfect men having raw wild sex continue. The massively-hung Jason Kingsley and Italian stud Max Veneziano take turns topping each other. Once again, you think a hot scene has ended but, no, they then get into a foursome with French hottie Mattieu Costa and Marcello Lars with lots of fucking in different combinations.
In a scene available only in the mail-order version from the website, Xavier Montenegro and lover David Salazar appear in a fourway with dark, sexy studs Gabriel Ventura and Bruno Din. At least, that's what they fantasize about after passing the hot pair on the street. It's a brilliant play on the power of fantasy for lovers as the action goes back and forth between the lovemaking of Montenegro and Salazar and their fantasy foursome with Ventura and Din. Once again, there's no shortage of orgasms.
Dark-haired motorcycle hunk Carlos Caballero rides into town on his big cycle and picks up superstar Matthias Vannelli. They fuck outdoors with Vannelli pounding Caballero over his motorcycle. But they are seen from indoors by a couple of lovers-- Victor Cowboy and Sergio del Castillo-- who fuck while watching from their window. Then they all move indoors and fuck in a red-hot variety of positions.
In all, Manville is far longer than the average video- a full 2 hours and 30 minutes of hot men from all over the world. Get it from the website for the extra scene.
-HONCHO
They say you can always recognize a Cole Porter song or a Van Gogh painting. So unique is the personal style of the artist that his aesthetic fingerprints are all over everything he creates. Certainly, that is also true of Kristen Bjorn, whose inimitable films have long graced the adult screen, and his most recent offering, Manville (subtitled The City of Men), could have been made by no one else.
Comprised of five vignettes, Manville appears to have been shot somewhere along the Iberian peninsula or possibly in Italy, and each of the episodes begins with a street pick-up where total strangers eye each other, begin the ominous ritual of the chase and soon connect in less-public areas of the picturesque town in which the film is set. Every scene is like a mini-symphony comprised of three or four movements, each of which is riddled with money shots throughout. Most of the cast members are garbed in black leather jackets, faded jeans and dusty boots, and once these are removed, the viewer is treated to an amazing array of stud-flesh -- rippling muscles, lubricious lips, calipigian backsides, and quivering erections. It's not difficult to recognize Bjorn Country.
In the opener, Eric Flower (that ubiquitous Eastern European star, a blond giant) passes two men (chocolate-skinned Paulao Do Pauzao and grizzled Alex Riberio, an Al Parker look-alike) on a bridge, and they check each other out before Flowers moves on. At once, the two predators give chase and follow Flower through the stonewalled streets into a walled courtyard. Flower wastes no time in offering himself to them, and soon all three are slathering one another's pumpede physiques, trading spit-soaked kisses and stripping down to reveal three equally airborne erections that are promptly serviced by one and all. In the second movement, the action moves indoors for more rimming and a delicious sandwich in which Riberio is plugged at both ends simultaneously. In the third movement, they adjourn to a bed where Flower gives up his ass to Do Pauzao before all three explode violently for the sequence finale. This is Bjorn at his most typical.
Jason Kingsley and Jed Willcox (both familiar veterans of Bjorn's films) open the second scene as they stroll the streets of the town but split when Willcox is cruised by a stubbled brunet (Jean Franko, who reminds one of the young Sal Mineo). The Franko-Willcox set-to, in another courtyard, has a rough edge to it as Franko manhandles his pick-up into giving him head before Willcox brings him off by hand. Then they shift to anal action with Franko eating out Wllcox's beefy butt before ravishing him in a no-nonsense doggie fuck. But the real star of the scene is a glamorously handsome brunet (Rocky Oliveira) who watches them through the bars of a nearby window while stroking his own impressive erection. Three money shots later, they move indoors for the second movement of the piece, which includes dick dueling, kissing, sucking, foreskin play and another round of orgasms. But the high points of the scene are the third and fourth movements, in which the dazzling Oliveira first bottoms (and comes while plugged by Franko) and then shifts to top him in a stunning double-time lap-rut that ends the scene.
Meanwhile, Kingsley is stalked by a pair of brunets (perky Marcello Lars and the older Matthieu Costa), but before they can connect, he spots the monumental Max Veneziano, another blond giant, this one covered with tattoos. From a nearby balcony, Veneziano throws down his keys by way of invitation, and soon Kingsley and he are going at it framed in a doorway upstairs -- kissing, stripping and trading masterful blow jobs as Lars and Costa watch through a patio window and make out. The cross-cut action hurtles forward into a lusty 69 by Kingsley and Veneziano that segues into rimming and a multipositioned fuck with the host on top. Outside, Costa works his way into Lars's bubblebutt for a standing doggie fuck, and then they are invited inside for a four-way. Things heat up as Kingsley and Venziano effortlessly double penetrate Costa, but the most torrid moments occur during the final movement as Kingsley tops Veneziano missionary on the dining table. This is the sort of scene on which Bjorn has built his reputation, and it is arguably the apex of the film.
Ingeniously structured, the fourth episode involves a pair of lovers (tall brunet Xavier Montenegro and mulatto David Salazar) who cross paths with another couple (curly haired Bruno Din and mulatto Gabriel Ventura). Both pairs go their separate ways, but back home, Montenegro and Salazar heat up their lovemaking by fantasizing about the other two. The action floats back and forth between reciprocal blow jobs by both couples before Montenegro murmurs, "Just imagine what would have happened if we'd brought them home" Then the real fun begins. All four are thoroughgoing cocksuckers and tireless fucking machines, and before the sequence is over, every one but Montenegro has given up his ass, topping and bottoming with equal enthusiasm. Salazar in particular is a consummate top, which makes his long-delayed bottoming the climax of the scene, and his fountain of a money shot while plugged is especially notable.
The final episode also focuses on two separate couples who eventually come together for a four-way. It begins with a motorcyclist (lean Matthias Vanelli) picking up the youthful brunet, Carlos Caballero and heading for a quiet country estate to suck and fuck all over the bright blue cycle parked in what appears to be a deserted drive. (Both keep their black leather gloves on throughout.) In a bedroom above them, however, they are being observed by the multitattooed Victor Cowboy and his buddy, Sergio Del Castillo, a solid hulk of a man who looks as if he might well be a pro football linebacker. They too trade blow jobs and flip-flop before inviting the other couple in for the film's grand finale. The fourway is a whirlwind of constantly shifting action, but the high point is the final movement with Caballero the unbridled centerpiece bottom.
What makes a Kristen Bjorn film so special? First off, virtually all of them are short on narrative and long on sexplay. Nearly always set in foreign climes, they invariably transport the viewer to an exotic never-neverland where he is treated to an endless parade of hypermasculine, multiorgasmic, versatile, uncut men with little on their minds except sex, and their heated encounters are recorded in vibrant camera work that captures the exotic locales and the magnificent men with equal finesse. Bjorn puts his camera in unexpected places (most particularly his amazing undershots) and again and again coaxes his performers to do things one never expects them to do. What's more, in Manville, there are, as best we could count, close to 60 exuberantly delivered, amazingly lensed orgasms -- the icing on the cake, so to speak. Rating: 4 stars.
-Jerry Douglas, Gay Chicago Magazine
Kristen Bjorn's films transcend sexual orientation. The models exist in a world that's clearly not real, a qtopia where gratification is instant and mutual, personal beauty is a given and the idyllic surroundings rival the men for their Elysian qualities. Manville: The City of Men could be right out of Plato's Symposium, a place where men's split selves wander in search of their other halves. All the men wear jeans and black leather jackets over bare torsos and, like Hansels in an adult fairy tale, they leave a trail of jism everywhere they've been. Eric Flower is the first man we see, and as he walks through the village he acquires two followers, Alex Ribeiro Paul?ão do Pauz?ão. Eric leads them to a place of privacy and they remove his clothing, as well as their own. Blow jobs produce the first round of orgasms, then they move to a new location for fucking. Alex Ribeiro takes charge here, sucking, rimming and fucking the men he's with.
In the next scene, Jean Franko is lurking in a stone doorway when Jed Willcox and Jason Kingsley pass by. Franko beckons them away, but only Jed follows Jean to a courtyard, where he sucks him to climax. Rocky Oliveira watches them through a window that opens onto the courtyard, and he strips and masturbates for them. Jean and Jed move closer to the window, so Jed can touch Rocky while Jean fucks him. After more orgasms, they assemble indoors for more oral sex, additional climaxes, then fucking on a bed. Oliviera, whom we saw in Bjorn's Male Tales, is the best thing that's happened to eyebrows since Joan Crawford. A stunningly sexy and compellingly beautiful man, he's literally a vessel of pleasure not only for his possessors but for the beholder. Jed cradles Rocky in his arms and caresses his torso while Jean Franko fucks him — the type of moment of male tenderness and intimacy that Bjorn so excels at. Then they move to an upholstered chair and reverse roles.
If you wonder what happened to Jason Kingsley, he spotted Max Veneziano in an overhead balcony and took a detour. Max watches Jason approach, and tosses him a key. Before descending the stairs to meet Jason, Max nods an invitation to two other men in the street, Marcello Lars and Matthieu Costa.
Max meets Jason in the doorway and they press their bodies together, freeing their cocks from their jeans, to cross like swords between them. While they suck, the men outside watch.
Jason and Max move to a bed to fuck, while the men outside also fuck, and after one or more orgasms for everyone, Max tells Marcello and Matthieu to come inside and all clamber onto a bed for a feast of sucking, rimming, frottage and fucking, including the double-penetration of Costa by Max and Jason. After climaxes, they move to a room with a large, baronial table where Max will get fucked by Jason while the others cradle Max's head, stroke his cock and tweak his nipples as he surrenders to pleasure.
In a stone alley, David Salazar tells Carlos Montenegro his fantasy, then demonstrates by sucking Carlos. The fantasy involves two men they just saw, Bruno Din and Gabriel Ventura. While David demonstrates his fantasy, Carlos brings it to life in his imagination. This double narrative continues as we watch one couple, then another couple, then all four together until reality and fantasy become indistinguishable in a blur of flesh, muscle and semen.
In the fifth scene, Matthias Vannelli and Carlos Caballero park their motorcycle to have sex — below the window of Victor Cowboy and Sergio Castillo. The sex indoors mirrors the sex happening in the street, with the two tops, Cowboy and Vannelli, making eye contact with each other. After cumming, they gather indoors for group oral sex, with everyone shooting another load. Then they move to a sunnier room and fuck on a sofa, with Cowboy and Caballero taking turns fucking each other while Vannelli fucks Castillo.
Rating: Scorching!
-Onan the Vulgarian, X-FACTOR
It has to be absolutely grueling, being one of those gorgeous models in a Kristen Bjorn feature. Just count the cum-shots in the opening scene alone, which gets four squirts apiece from Eric Flower, Alex Ribeiro, and Paulao do Pauzao. Just look at the boners that each and ever single model brandishes in every single frame. Hard work for them, but pure pleasure for the viewer. Bjorn takes to the streets for his latest, where The City of Men is full of cruising that quickly leads to some amazing encounters. So many studs make an impression, and congrats to Bjorn for getting tops to open up their holes: Jean Franko, Max Veneziano, Jason Kingsley… all of them are usually dishing it our, but here they take it as well. Two threesomes and three four-man scenes (one of them on the mail-order version only) offer an excess of action, and an endless supply of unforgettable shots. The double penetration with Kingsley and Veneziano entering Matthieu Costa is the hottest, but there are plenty to choose from (just watching the sword play between Kingsley and Veneziano is almost too much to take). Bruno Din stays stiff as he gets pounded by David Salazar, then returns the favor. And if you can find two hotter men and cocks than Xavier Montenegro and Matthias Vannelli, we'd really like to see them.
Rating: 4.5 stars.
-Brady Jensen, ADULT VIDEO NEWS