Review by tigerfish50

"The Orgasm Diaries" (originally "BrilliantLove" - a far better title) is an unusual British Indie film combining explicit eroticism with a fairy tale narrative. Manchester and Noon are a young couple deliriously in love and ravenous for each others' bodies. He is some kind of slacker freelance photographer and she a taxidermist, but neither appear to have any employment. They live in a shed located in a field, where they roll around in lubricious couplings most of the day and far into the night. Manchester habitually records their love-making with his Instamatic camera - until one fateful evening when he forgets his photos in a pub where they are discovered by a trader in erotica. This businessman tracks down the lustful snapper in order to tempt him with gallery exhibits and worldly success - which subsequently leads to the lovers' estrangement when Manchester inexplicably fails to inform Noon that images of their love-making are destined to become merchandise tickling the fancy of art connoisseurs.

The film is somewhat flawed by the way director Ashley Horner chooses to tell his story. He gives it the flavor of a stylized fable, and makes little effort to convince his audience of its reality. Manchester and Noon are portrayed as children of nature, and the art world as a zone of sinister decadence. Such stark contrasts undermine belief in the lovers' desolation - which is a great pity since Liam Browne and Nancy Trotter Landry give intense, uninhibited performances as the besotted pair. In particular, Landry's Noon is an authentic depiction of an earthy young woman made radiantly beautiful by sexual desire. The film possesses great originality, but casual oversights in plotting and character leave one feeling it was a missed opportunity to produce something truly extraordinary.