A raw, vital and innovative exploration of the adult film industry, Pleasure is the first film by Swedish director Ninja Thyberg. One of the more daring beginnings of the 2021 Sundance Film Festival, with professional porn stars playing versions of themselves, Thyberg’s captivating debut is as sincere as it is bold. The film will premiere for Italy on June 15 at the Biografilm Festival in Bologna. Starting June 17th, Pleasure will be available on Mubi
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Adapted from Thyberg’s 2013 award-winning short film of the same name, Pleasure follows “Bella Cherry” (newcomer Sofia Kappel) as she arrives in Los Angeles with a dream of becoming the next porn superstar. The girl lives in a “model house” with other aspiring performers and will soon become friends with roommate and porn actress Joy, who helps her find her way around this fascinating new world.
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However, as her unbridled ambition leads her into increasingly dangerous territory, Bella struggles to reconcile her dreams of emancipation with the reality of the darker sides of the business. Pleasure is a representation of the porn industry that breaks taboos and faces, through an uncompromising gaze, the complex issues of consent and power in the field of sex work.
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Selected at Cannes Film Festival 2021 And presented at Sundance’s World Cinema Dramatic Competition, PLEASURE garnered great fanfare on the festival circuit, taking home the Jury Prize and Special Grand Prix nominations in Deauville, and receiving nominations at the British International Film Awards, the European Film Awards and the Film Independent Spirit Awards.
Pleasure, the trailer for the film
Pleasure with the powerful and courageous interpretation of Sofia Kappel, explores with remarkable and ruthless realism the theme of feminism and sex work in an industry entirely dominated by men.
Pleasure, a clip from the film
PLEASURE is written by Ninja Thyberg and Peter Modestij and produced by Eliza Jones, Markus Waltå and Erik Hemmendorff at Plattform Produktion
Actress Evelyn Claire in a scene from the film Pleasure
Pleasure, a scene from the film starring Sofia Kappel
A scene from the film Pleausure directed by Ninja Thyberg
Ninja Thyberg Pleasure
Sofia Kappel protagonist of Pleasure, the film about the modern porn industry directed by the director Ninja Thyberg
Ninja Thyberg graduated from the Stockholm Academy of Dramatic Arts in 2015. Her short film Pleasure (2013) participated in the Sundance Film Festival and received the Canal Plus Award at the Cannes Film Festival Critics’ Week. The short Hot Chicks (2014) won the 1km Film Award at the Stockholm International Film Festival and the short Catwalk (2015) received the Student Visionary Award at the Tribeca Film Festival. Stallion was presented at the Stockholm Festival in 2015. It was presented at the Stockholm Festival in 2015.
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