L'éducation de Claire

Melanie Coste was one of Dorcel's greatest stars, and even featured prominently, alongside arguably Numero Uno star Laure Sainclair, in Wicked Pictures' Stateside advertising for this import content. Here she's featured in what has become a standard format for the label: stories cloned from "Story of O".

So Melanie is sent to a chateau for bondage and sexual training under the tutelage of Candide, a severely styled beauty who dresses in a man's tuxedo garb.

As Claire, in retrospect confusing for us Dorcel fans in that a decade later Claire Castel became the label's figurehead and had her name featured in many a title, Coste goes through the usual trials and sexual tribulations of a novice submissive, but it is all done in a pleasant if not uplifting manner, made palatable by the beauty of the entire femme cast.

Choky Ice in several scenes seems to never have aged, looking exactly the same as his roles a decade later, and a bit silly in a fetish outfit resembling the stereotype of a Chippendales dancer (e.g., bare chest and bow tie). A very young Mick Blue with full head of hair is cast as MC's husband.

Director Jurgen Wolf (his name is even misspelled in the credits as Jorm intending to be Jorn) does a far better job at this "Story of O" format than current workhorse house director Herve Bodilis, and has another must-see Dorcel credit under his belt in "Madame" starring Contance Devil.