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