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Pleasure (2021)
A daring and valid inside look into the modern porn business, with only slight hints of affectation and message by Swedish filmmaker Ninja Thyberg, based on her own award-winning 2013 short. Sofia Kappel plays the 19-year-old Swedish girl Linnéa who travels to Los Angeles determined to become a porn star, and Pleasure tells the story of how she loses her last drops of naïvete and becomes a full-blown cynic, without simplifying her psychological transformation or the business in general. There are a handful of really powerful segments in here, not least the depiction of Bella Cherry's first BDSM scene, and the film is at its best when Thyberg treats the material without prejudice or emotion, letting the audience make its own conclusions. Kappel gives a powerful and nuanced lead performance in what was her debut movie. Several of her co-stars are real-life porn actors.
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