The unknown Nicolas weber directed 6 films (all erotic) at the beginning of the new millennium. 4 belonging to The Diary that told the story of Anna (Lila Baumann) a young English woman who went from England in the 930s to Postwar Italy. In this, she stands out from the North American productions with delicate and well-formed actresses who looked like haute couture models and natural bodies (not silicone busts) with angelic but lustful faces. That is to say, Baumann and the cast seemed to come out of a Just Jeaking, David Hamilton or Zelman King movie and not from Playboy. He also had a good script for the genre that combined history, eroticism, dramatic moments, and other comics. It also had excellent photography and excellent costumes, which was rare at that time (we are dealing with a genre in which women undress).
The last film in the saga surely did not achieve the expected success, so his next films were French for a channel that showed erotic films, several of them starring people of the genre.
For the two films called Total Romance, as in the newspaper, 90% of the cast was repeated and it was about rich people. The difference was that it was in modern times and the actors played different roles. Except for the male lead, the Swedish super model Alex Lundqvist (everything seems to indicate that it is indeed him) who is a co-star in the first film has a supporting role in the second and vice versa.
This second and last film by Nicolas Webber (at least with that name) is his best film and is an adaptation of Dangerous Liaisons and more precisely Cruel Intentions but in Paris and in greater detail in the original work. In other words, it brings out the best of both worlds. The humor of Cruel Intentions but with a more elegant and less crude proposal. And its great. Is about fancy young people and not about highschool (thanks god!!!)
I don't understand why Alex Lundqvist would accept to debut as a leading man in softporn movies made for television, but he complies diligently with his role as Valmont here called Andy Demetrius, very elegantly and immaculately dressed and looked, worthy of a top model. He looks extremely young for being around 30 years old.
But are the actresses that stand out, all of them beautiful and the female leads look like top European models, specially the one that portray Christina. Most of them didn't do anything else before or after this movie. Therefore, except perhaps for some tertiary actor or actress, none of them came from porn or prostitution.
The first Total Romance the Initiation (about hackers) was good, Ultimate Games is not so easy to get online (I got it in French). But it exceeds and by far the previous one in everything.
Specially in the sex scenes some are quite imaginative. And all have good taste and are sexy!!!
Unfortunately Nicolas Webber apparently hadnt made another movie. And its a pitty that the director and almost all the cast except Lundqvist dissapeared after this realese (at least from.iMDb page). Because they were all very good here.
