Zona Rosa (2004) Documentary DVD Review
June 13th, 2006
A documentary about gay-for-pay strippers in Mexico? Count me in!
You should check it out too! Click here to buy Zona Rosa on DVD This documentary follows the population of “zona rosa” – the red-light district of a Mexican city where stippers, drug dealers, prostitutes, and their patrons are free to roam the night. (”Zona Rosa” can also be translated as “my kinda town!”) Like most documentaries, the filmmaker chose a diverse group of guys who represent different ends of the spectrum.
The most screen time goes to “Angelo,” the archetype of Latin American gay-for-pay … he’s married, with children, lives like a total Mamma’s boy, and prays to the Virgin of Guadalupe before heading out on stage pole-dance and shake his chorizo. He’s a hot guy who really considers erotic dancing an “art form.” His dance scenes are the best in the film (and on the DVD extras) … sloppy NYC go-go boys need to watch and take notes.
Other dancers are profiled, and while they are handsome (and really know how to move their awesome bodies) they lack the complexity of Angelo. Some of the best scenes are set at El Antro, the edgiest of the Zona Rosa stripclubs where boys and clients push the limits.
Even though this isn’t a porno film, it’s great to see lots of dick and ass. 
Actually, lots of really hard dick and ass. (Keep an eye out for Patrick and Angelo’s description of how they keep them so hard.)
Outside of the strip club, the film gives some pretty good background on the dancers’ personal lives and the social structure of the gays and straights who visit Zona Rosa. We even get updates on the dancers who move on after El Antro is closed.
(The photos on the left are screencaps that I took from an El Antro scene with a great dick-measuring contest.) All in all, Zona Rosa is pretty good video. Of course, I’d love to see them jacking off and shooting cum all over the stage, but that’s just me. Oh wait … that’s you too? Maybe we can petition for a sequel?
Click here to buy Zona Rosa on DVD!
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