definitely agree. I'm wildly into european girls. seriously into them. and almost always (90% time) prefer them to american performers. more beautiful, more character and generally far bolder and more passionate anything-goes in their performances.
but as a caveat i would say that (personal opinion) it seems only LP gets the best performances out of them. and when an LP girl leaves LP for another euro company i very rarely follow them. non-LP euro porn generally still behind US.
best of the rest are dorcell ('who turned out the lights?') productions.
a lot of former LP girls appear there (anna polina, kimber delice, nataly gold, etc) and they always present their women superbly. tbh they are second to none for that (according to my preferences). I'm seriously fetishy for that classic 1950s high-class parisian call-girl look, and the dorcell girl look (immaculate hair/make up, black silk and chiffon dresses, fine-den seamed stockings, killer patent louboutin stilettos, etc) is as good as it gets on those terms.
LP can be quite hit and miss (subjective, others love it so not dismissing it). but gym kit etc really not for me. and i'm a big Ria fan but that 70s abba jumpsuit she wore in clockwork i couldn't wait to see gone. I appreciate it was a 1970s parody. maybe that's just me being boring.
but the 'dark = arty' thing ruins dorcell scenes for me. they are almost always in half light or shadow and it almost never works.
high contrast & underexposed works in erotic photography because you can light ad-hoc to a static pose, so important detail is not lost. and you can also burn-in and dodge-out wanted/unwanted detail in post production.
but when people are moving that approach rarely suits its purpose, and far too often crucial detail gets lost in the shadows.
and obviously, the action itself is always far tamer than even the softest LP. when i see anna polina (who was superb at LP) in a dorcell it's like watching someone use a ferrari for a milk round. A criminal waste of potential. she never gets out of first gear in a dorcell (and only sometimes in a tainster). anna can run men down to jelly in performances any time she chooses, so it's almost sad to see her trundling through limp dorcell scenes if you found her through LP.
obviously it's her choice (LP is a tough gig and not for all). and if she is happy working at a softer level, all good.
but dorcell wastes her best, imo.

as to all other euro productions, i find other stuff like GGG, MDH, PSS, fake agent etc so cheap and trashy as to be unwatchable. maybe people go there for trashy but it's not for me.
as to the states (for sake of comparison) the major problem i have with a ton of american porn is that far too much seems to favour psychodrama over physical action. titillating the subconscious at the expense of sheer flesh-on-flesh physical content.
i'm a big fan of alex grey but (apart from a couple of scenes for mrstrokesxxx) pretty much everything she has done over the last year has been a variation of cheerleader, babysitter, step-daughter, etc. ankle socks and lollipops.
i'll leave it to individual members to speculate about what that might reveal about the american sexual psyche, or at least alex's place in the american porn market (megan rain and others in same situation). but to me it seems that a lot of it is basically aimed at middle-aged men who fantasize about fucking their daughters friends, frankly. maybe that's where the money is and obviously the business follows the money.
but too often that 'psychological element' is racked up to compensate for some pretty lame an uneventful action. as if US porn punters are more intersted in getting off on the idea than the spectacle.
happily euro porn doesn't really go there (even when it's a comperably weak in production values). the action is the action, not the mind games. and i want action. that's a major US v euro porn difference that leads me to favour the european.
so this post has wandered off at a bit of a tangent (it's the weekend) but basically... yeah. give me LP euro girls morning, noon and night.
the superb anna polina at LP when she used to really go for it...
