Marc Dorcel is a multi-award winning French producer of pornography and with 30 years in the business you would expect him to have a huge back catalogue to draw on. With a list of adult accolades that would make a Hollywood director/producer weep he has been in the industry longer than many of its current employees have been alive.

The first disk of the set contains scenes from 1981, 82 and 1988. The video quality is excellent considering the age and the slightly odd colour balance and saturation add to the atmosphere as you are transported back to the early days of porn on VHS cassette.

The subsequent DVDs in this six disk collection bring you from the 1980s to 2009 giving you a chance to experience three decades of evolution of one of Europe’s best known porn houses.

For the most part the scenes are good with a few awkward scenarios in there, well you can’t win them all. The models are generally of the highest quality and the production values high enough to ensure you don’t get the feeling that the shoot took place in someone’s back yard.

At times some of the later scenes are a little frenzied in pace and this feeling of haste is amplified by some pretty vicious editing which caused the action to jump abruptly at times.

This DVD collection is at its best when it’s being different and a little bit strange. The early scenes and those (like the cat burglar scenario) which display obvious imagination are the ones that will have you coming back for more. The size of this set meant that we watched it over a couple of weeks and there are a few scenes which I’d like to go back and watch again immediately. Not something that could be said of many of DVDs we are sent to review.

So has this former sewing machine engineer and haulage contractor done himself justice? Well yes and no, which one depends on what you are looking for from the box sex. If you want a huge box of French porn with some gorgeous women and scenarios that actually do try and tell a story then yes this is a great purchase. The narrative doesn’t get in the way of the fucking and the naivety of some of the earlier scenes is as alluring as the girls. If you were looking for a lot of early retro porn then you might be a little disappointed. After the first disk the scenes are more contemporary and even though they cover the last two decades they quickly take on the look of present day porn.

This is a great buy for Dorcel fans and a contains a huge amount of variety so it’ll take you ages to get bored of this adult DVD box set.

Oh, one last thing. For some reason you get an embossed metal plaque with the same design as the box set cover when you buy this DVD. The corners are drilled so you can hang it up or screw it to your wall if you like. Different.

Retailed in the UK by Simply Pleasure stores. You can find your nearest local store here.