Mascara

2/20/2025

**A brilliant essay on loneliness** This is one of the most fascinating hidden gems from the "Golden Age" of New York adult cinema. It is highly celebrated by film preservation platforms like The Rialto Report and boutique restoration labels like Vinegar Syndrome for its unusual urban melancholy and its strong stance on female empowerment. Lisa De Leeuw stars as Harriet, a repressed and lonely secretary working in a Manhattan office. After accidentally discovering that her boss (Robert Kerman, AKA Richard Bolla) is having sexual encounters in his office with a high-class escort named Lucy (played by the unsettling Lee Carroll), Harriet decides to work up the courage to contact her and find out what her services are all about. This instantly sparks an unexpected and tight-knit friends