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Movie Review – Pleasure (2021)
Starring Sofia Kappel, Revika Anne Reustle, Evelyn Claire, Chris Cock, Dana DeArmond, and Kendra Spade.
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19-year-old Linnéa leaves her small-town life in Sweden for Los Angeles with the aim to become the world’s next big porn star, but the road to her goal turns out to be bumpier than she imagined.
As much as Ninja Thyberg’s startlingly un-sexy debut
Pleasure may focus its lens squarely on the porn industry, it’s also one of the most generally frank and perceptive films about sex ever made – and how sex comes to define so many of the uneven power structures held up within society today.
Walks a wobbly fine line.
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Sofia Kappel stars as a young Swedish woman keen to break into the adult film industry in L.A. in Ninja Thyberg s feature debut.
A young woman arrives from a distant land in the capital of a certain entertainment industry and ascends the ladder of success, only to lose a bit of her soul on each rung of the climb. That, of course, is the plot of
Showgirls, but it s not like Paul Verhoeven, or anyone who s written a version of
Faust, ever patented the concept. This means Swedish writer-director Ninja Thyberg has room to put her own stamp on this classic rags-to-riches-to-nihilism-and-disillusion narrative arc with
Pleasure Review: A Raw and Real Inside Drama About the L.A. Porn Industry Pleasure Review: A Raw and Real Inside Drama About the L.A. Porn Industry
Ninja Thyberg s documentary-like drama, starring radiant newcomer Sofia Kappel as a young woman rising through the industry, takes the measure of life in the age of extreme porn as few movies have.
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Director: Ninja Thyberg
With: Sofia Kappel, Revika Anne Reustle, Evelyn Claire, Chris Cock, Dana Dearmond, Kendra Spade, Jason Toler, Lance Hart, Mark Spiegler.
If you had to say what the biggest difference is between the porn industry of the 1970s and the porn industry of today, you’d probably start with the obvious and overwhelming fact that people used to watch porn in grungy movie theaters and now access it on the Internet. You might talk about how even though the porn industry is still driven by a star system, with brand names who treat themselves like multi-media commodities,
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We usually don t pay too much attention to the Sundance Film Festival on Slog since it s over in Park City and we re in Seattle. But this year is different. Sundance is going
digital, partnering with film organizations around the country to create an accessible and safe national event. In Seattle, the fest is working with Northwest Film Forum to put together forum panels and workshops, like
Our Right to Gaze, a 90-minute session on dismantling industry gatekeeping and empowering BIPOC/LGBTQ+ creators. The fest kicks off this Thursday (Jan. 28) and runs through next week (Feb. 3), and we ll have daily film reviews up on Slog once the fest kicks off.