Move Sex in the City to London, make it a bit inter-cultural, and cross that with Red Shoe Diaries. You'd get something like Private Moments, a watchable soft-core film now available at many mainstream video rental huts.

Like Sex in the City, this film is about 4 urban lasses that get together to talk about their (sex) lives. And like Red Shoe, this film is broken into a series of distinct sexcapades that could stand on their own, but are better together as a smorgasboard of fantasy.

Private Moments is somewhat different from most of the other boxes at Blockbuster as much of the stories have a common element: lots of exhibitionism and a dash of voyeurism. Public exposure in a phone booth, followed by sex a phone booth; sex on an elevated window washing platform; sex on a commuter train, sex on a the top level of a double-decker bus as it rolls through the City ... get the idea? If the thought of being seen while having sex gets you excited, you definitely should see this film. Even if you have the good sense to avoid being stamped a sex-offender for life following arrest for public porking (lewd and lascivious behavior), the thought of it can make for an interesting plot.

The acting, script and directing were all OK, with the exception of one line in the script that made absolutely no sense to me: the girls were at an art gallery looking at a photo of one of them, who was caught on film while doing it in public. They look at a large photo of their friend staring straight at the camera, and are suprised when their friend 'reveals' that she is the person in the picture. "Oh, that's you??" Perhaps the circle of girls are unusual not only because they are all exhibitionists, but because they also all suffer from prosopagnosia, or face-blindness. Stand next to it ... yeah, it kinda looks like it coul...

Over at IMDB.com, there was one review of this film, which was harsh: "In fact its rubbish. Its nothing short of a soft core porn movie." No real story, just sexual adventures? Duh. Anyone who read the DVD box got a clear idea of what to expect. If you want a film like Sophie's Choice or Saving Private Ryan, look elsewhere. And don't apply the criteria for judging those films to this one.

The Aphrodisiology bottom line: While this film won't win any Academy Awards, it is watchable and I expect that the director will turn out even better films in the future. This is an adult film to get a couple into the mood - for a slow wind-up to your own night of fantasies, its worth a rental.

Directed by Jag Mundhra, written by Carl Austin, 2005, U.K.