''Pleasure' may not have something altogether revelatory to say about its subject, but it nonetheless incisively and authentically contends that in this rugged world, a good deal of the women aren’t actually enjoying themselves,' writes nschager
, director Ninja Thyberg’s drama about a young Swedish woman who arrives in Los Angeles determined to be the next adult film superstar, which premiered at the 2021 Sundance Film Festival and lands in U.S. theaters on May 13 in an explicit, unrated cut.
Upon touching down in LA, Linnéa assumes the stage moniker Bella Cherry and moves into a “model house” that she shares with other aspiring starlets and is owned and run by Mike , her agent and de facto pimp.
That lesson is further hammered home when she attends a photo shoot whose center of attention is Ava , who Bella learns is a “Spiegler girl” represented by mega-agent Mark Spiegler . Ava is an alluring beauty, as well as an arrogant and condescending competitor, and she laughs at Bella’s inexperience with posing for layout photos, compelling Joy to come to her rescue—and, in the process, to reveal herself as a trustworthy friend.
Bella’s debasement peaks with a betrayal, as well as a subsequent scene where she’s asked to assume the male role in a lesbian encounter and relishes the opportunity to dish out what she’s previously been forced to take.is a portrait of a business in which men use women for their own ends, and then convince those same women that this is how things operate—and, as a result, that they should behave likewise.
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