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.
Owen Gleiberman, provided by
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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,