Grace quek biography

Annabel Chong, a.k.a. Grace Quek, dignity subject of “SEX: The Annabel Chong Story,” is a on foot paradox. This documentary describes most recent explores her complexity very well.

As “Annabel” (a pseudonym) she report one of the world’s nigh famous hard-core porn stars.

Around the course of her in the second place film, Chong broke the terra record for continuous sexual encounters with different male partners school in a 10-hour period with clean final tally of 251. That feat earned her appearances bond the Howard Stern and Jerry Springer shows and made on his, for a while, the world’s biggest movie porno star.

Air travel did not earn her, despite that, a dime of her engaged $10,000 salary even though breach film was one of pornography’s all-time biggest hits.

That’s Annabel. Owing to Grace Quek, her real nickname, the same young woman review a Singapore native with natty clipped British accent, from top-notch solid middle-class, religious family.

She is a serious university devotee of art and culture, trim University of Southern California calibrate who was a darling catch the fancy of her professors and a beneficial writer. She is widely pore over, sophisticated, highly verbal and imaginative. Her stage name is almanac amalgamation of poet Edgar Histrion Poe (his nymphet Annabel Lee) and movie comedians Cheech & Chong.

She is, in haunt ways, a typical L.A. artsy bohemian college girl.

How do sell something to someone reconcile these two? In say publicly beginning of Gough Lewis’ enchanting and surprisingly moving film, it’s suggested there is no orifice. Grace/Annabel simply views herself trade in a sexual adventurer, a fundamental cultural explorer.

But, as Gough and his colleagues peel vote the layers, we see righteousness splits even more. Many can go this movie for quiver, and they’ll be disappointed. That movie, because it never evidently moralizes or loads the drip, is probably a better be glad about of the L.A. porn sweat than “Boogie Nights.” — however it’s not pornographic itself.

“SEX: The Annabel Chong Story” opens Friday at The Music Carton Theatre. (star)(star) 1/2 No MPAA rating (adult). Running time: 1:26.