Private Black Label 10: Devil in the Flesh (1999)

Its chosen title has become generic, used so many times for sex-oriented films of variable quality. Antonio Adamo's edition is unrelated to earlier ones, and is one of his better efforts.

He excels at staging erotic tableaux, usually tied to a story narrative but only loosely. This one's about a female artist portrayed by Adamo's muse Julia Taylor, and the various romantic tangles she tragically gets involved in.

Adamo carefully runs the gamut of sexual content, covering lesbianism, threesomes, plenty of jealousy and just enough BDSM content so as to titillate rather than bore the viewer. Design work is top-notch, including a huge white phallic sculpture that is a most impressive visual prop, rather than being functional.

Casting is impressive, and overall I enjoyed this one much more than Adamo's many famous, but overblown multi-part features (like "Roma" and "Virtualia").