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PVT CHAT review - the cam girl who loved me
Be careful what you wish for virtually.
by Graham FullerSaturday, 13 February 2021
Remote control: Julia Fox as dominatrix Scarlet in PVT CHAT
An initially off-putting erotic comedy thriller about the relationship between a webcam dominatrix, “Scarlet” (Julia Fox), and the Internet gambler, Jack (Peter Vack), who becomes obsessed with her, Ben Hozie’s sexually graphic
PVT CHAT becomes increasingly resonant as it proceeds – and surprisin
An initially off-putting erotic comedy thriller about the relationship between a webcam dominatrix, “Scarlet” (Julia Fox), and the Internet gambler, Jack (Peter Vack), who becomes obsessed with her, Ben Hozie’s sexually graphic
Directed by Josh Greenbaum
★★★
FROM the writers of Bridesmaids comes a truly bizarre comedy which celebrates female friendship, middle age and culottes the 1970s fashion trend we all pray never comes back.
It is co-written and produced by Annie Mumolo and Kristen Wiig, who also play lifelong friends Barb and Star.
After losing their jobs and being kicked out of Talking Club the pair decide to leave their hometown for the first time to holiday in Vista Del Mar, Florida, in search of sun, sea and “living la vida loca.”
There they meet the dashing Edgar (an all-singing-all-dancing Jamie Dornan), who is on nefarious business for his villainous boss and lover (she who shall not be named), and who joins them in a hilarious, hallucinogenic booze-and-drug-fuelled session.
PVT Chat review – a murky story of online obsession
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Subcultures and obsession are explored in PVT Chat, starring Peter Vack as Jack, a lonely New Yorker living in a crumbling studio apartment. He spends his nights frittering money on online Blackjack, then spunking more on sexual encounters with Cam Girls.
He becomes particularly enamoured with one West Coast dominatrix named Scarlet (Uncut Gems’ Julia Fox), who reveals something personal in exchange for a higher tip and begins what he sees as a personal connection. Jack’s fixation becomes stronger when he sees Scarlett in the street, and realises she is closer than he thought.
PVT Chat
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Ben Hozie: When I first started writing the film, I wanted to make it a movie that explored how computers are changing consciousness for good. Then I decided I wanted to do a romantic story, and thought that I could update the classic trope of a guy falling in love with a prostitute by having a guy fall in love with a cam girl. And then I was thinking a lot about how the dopamine reaction you get from gambling is so similar to that on social media and the internet. So all those thoughts were swimming in my head.
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In a 2016 Vanity Fair article, Nancy Jo Sales wrote about prostitution going mainstream, describing a new economy of young people selling their bodies to pay off student loans or just to get by in the tough economic climate. On the same theme, Ben Hozie makes his feature debut with this semi-insightful, uncomfortably funny indie drama about a man who becomes obsessed with an online sex worker. Itâs a film with a slackerish mumblecore vibe, and Hozie is refreshingly grown up about sex. But itâs hard to see how his film adds much to the conversation about intimacy in the internet age.