Secrets De Famille tells the story of how a mysterious butler, Mario, shows up and wrecks havoc in the family of an unscrupulous businessman as he sleeps with every member of the family while plotting to seize everything from his employers. One of the key reason why this movie fascinates and thrills me is because Mario Cavalieri doesn't look like a typical gay porn actor - more like a rather ordinary guy next door, actually - but he is a decent top and a good bottom. What's really surprising is how he manages to exude a menacing air that is dangerous and sexual in his role. Mario looks like a pleasant and affable man but he is a deadly sexual predator underneath his demeanor and therefore in the role of the mysterious butler, he holds the unfocused movie together like rock-hard glue.

The family comprises the businessman, his hysterical and shrewish trophy wife (Mr Cadinot really needs to work out his issues with women one of these days), and the two incestous siblings Dorian and Martin. (I'm using the actors' names instead of the names of the characters in the movie, by the way, so don't email me about the characters being name Louis or something, please. Because I know, thanks!) Dorian, the younger one, is a mega-slut who is cheating on his fuckbuddy Martin by holding orgies behind Martin's back. Harvey is the studious one, although he does get laid when Dorian gets injured and Harvey decides that a hot fuck on the hospital bed is just what the little brother needs. But does the nurse need to clean up those sheets afterwards? These teenaged hormonal cuties can be so inconsiderate sometimes.

Anyway, here comes Mario. Dorian realizes that Mario is the same model as the one in the adult mag he has so he has to give Mario a try. Mario roughly takes him from behind as Dorian is bent over his mother's table and this scene is quite hot because Mario is still wearing his white shirt and I have a thing for guys in formal clothes that are in various states of half-undress. Later Mario will bend over a gravestone so that Martin can have a go at his ass. Mario will also fuck his employer - although this scene isn't expanded beyond a kiss, maybe because Mr Cadinot fears that I will simply die from horror when I see men who look like adults get it on on my TV - before taking turns at topping and bottoming with Harvey, thus completing his conquest of the men in the family that employs him.

Both he and Martin have a simulated straight sex scene with the trophy wife but it's fake, short, and so overblown and overacted that I cringe at the tragic way Mr Cadinot seems to view straight sex as. Just because he screams like a bunny being run over by a truck when a little girl kissed him when he was thirteen doesn't mean that Mr Cadinot should spend the rest of his life envisioning heterosexual sex as a mass of exaggerated flails of the arms as the woman screams in a manner that will actually make a female porn star self-conscious, I'm just saying.

Other sex scenes are those of Martin and Dorian (pretty ordinary) and Dorian and a bunch of buddies reenacting a ho-hum by-the-number screw-and-suck orgy.

While Mario is a decent top, he excels as a bottom and this is evident in the final sex scene where it's still unclear whether he seduced the pool cleaner Max by waving his bubble-butt at that man or Max seduced him by taking him while he was sleeping in the nude on the recliner by the pool. This scene is really sizzling hot because the two seem really into the act. Max sports a true and impressive erection from start to finish, even before he plunges it into every feasible orifice in Mario's body, and those two lustily neck and kiss like nobody's business. The way Max slowly pumps his ass in a circular motion as he thrusts his cock deeper into Mario while he never stops kissing and necking Mario as they lay together on the recliner - ooh. This is why I enjoy watching dirty gay movies, come to think of it. The sight of Max's tightly-clenched buttcheeks as he bores his cock deeper into Mario, the exquisite nuances on Mario's face as he experiences pain and pleasure simultaneously - all that and more are captured beautifully by Cadinot's cinematography. This spectacular coupling is the reason why Secrets De Famille is an above average film worth a look rather than merely a decent film with an intriguing premise for a gay adult film.

Rating: B+