demi sutra and desiree dulce in “girl crush: demi & desiree”

scene title: girl crush: demi & desiree
performers: demi sutra, desiree dulce
site: when girls play ◅ twistys (mindgeek)
production credits: none listed
release date: february 12, 2020 | trailer

l: desiree dulce, r: demi sutra

i haven't reviewed every one of twistys' girl crush scenes even though i've watched them all, because sometimes i don't have anything to say. (or i wouldn't have anything nice to say, which amounts to the same thing.) but when this popped up as an early valentine's day treat, i went rather heart-eyes emoji about it. demi sutra has become one of my favorite porn personalities over the past year, in large part thanks to her active, enthusiastic, and outspoken social media presence; her playful lusting after half the women on my timeline has been one of the great joys of porn twitter in a year when it's easy to feel that there's been more bad vibes than good.

demi is twistys' treat of the month for february. she's not the first black woman to receive that honor (cassidy banks, cecilia lion, and kira noir all preceded her, in 2015, 2016, and 2018 respectively), but she's the first since the brand refresh in 2019 that made twistys a must-subscribe for me. her high-glam totm girl/girl scene is presumably still to come on the 15th, but this enchanting entry in the girl crush series of polite gonzo was a delightful surprise. i do wish that twistys was less stingy with the to-camera interview sequences (desiree gets no talking-head bits at all), especially as compared to the fly-on-the-wall intros for we like girls, but demi is such a charismatic and magnetic talker that any amount of time spent with her is too short.

the transition from demi talking about desiree to the camera to desiree entering and presenting her with a valentine's card (and demi being embarrassed about desiree overhearing her gushing about her) is a small but effective act of stage management by the anonymous director (who my gut says was too sloppy during the sex to be holly randall, but i don't know), capturing a genuine moment between the two of them before they proceed to make out and more. demi's penchant for volubility pays off here, as she maintains a verbal erotic connection with her partner in addition to the merely physical one, and draws more of a personality out of desiree dulce than i've ever seen before.

the sex was purely beautiful, with occasional difficulties in properly capturing it by the cameras. the worst of tripod shooting is that when the performers go into unchoreographed positions as they do here, the camera operators can be agonizingly slow to adjust. but it's also hotter when the women's passion leads the shooting rather than the other way round; choreographed sex, no matter how gorgeous it looks, is always less engaging than sometimes awkward or ungainly angles on the real thing.

performances: 28
cinematography: 21
editing: 18
script: 14
sjw points: 5

total score: 

86