Sex: The Annabel Chong Story . Austin Chronicle . 03-29-99

Sex: The Annabel Chong Story

DIRECTED BY: Gough Lewis

REVIEWED: 03-29-99

Best known as the adult film actress who in 1995 gleefully submitted herself to "the world's largest gang-bang" when she had sex with 251 men in a 10-hour period, the Taiwan-born Chong comes across as a porn star conundrum in Lewis' film, half an intelligent gender theorist and half an incomprehensible nymphomaniac. Ultimately as disturbing as it is entertaining, Lewis follows Chong (real name: Grace Quek) from her classes as a gender studies student at USC (from which she now has her degree) to the palatial estates of L.A.'s notoriously shady porn barons and from there to Taiwan, where Chong reveals to her horrified mother what, exactly, she's been doing in America all these years. Clearly, Quek is an anomaly in the industry, a well-spoken, forthright young woman with a clearly defined and sexually politicized agenda. Her alter-ego, Chong, is merely a muddled, dull-witted, and pathetic figure in need of some serious therapy sessions. It's where these two personalities intersect that Lewis finds the fascinating duality inherent in the porn business, leaving the viewer wondering who, indeed, is being exploited here.

--Marc Savlov

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