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Pleasure
Directed by
Fermin de la Serna
2021
10m
Short
,
Drama
88%
60%
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Death and the solitary pleasure of masturbation. Luis takes on an inner search looking for something that releases him from his anguish.
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Cast of Pleasure
Franco Dalbo
Manuel Erramospe
Manuel Mercier
Valentin Gomez Varela
Laura López Moyano
Pleasure Reviews
San Jose Mercury News
Randy Myers
An unflinching, fascinating look at a profession from the inside and out.
FilmWeek (KPCC - NPR Los Angeles)
Tim Cogshell
"Daring," I suppose, could be used to describe this film... But I don't think we really learn much about this world.
The Atlantic
David Sims
These slice-of-life details, while sporadic, make Pleasure compelling, offering a distinct perspective on a creative process that can be mundane but seems always at risk of spinning out of control.
Crooked Marquee
Kimber Myers
Pleasure is compelling and persuasive, with a lingering resonance that will likely affect how - or if - its audience watches porn in the future.
The Daily Beast
Nick Schager
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.
Los Angeles Times
Robert Daniels
But it's Kappel, an actress with neither experience in the porn industry nor film, who turns in a star-making performance as Bella. She balances showing not just the insecurity and fear felt by this actress, but the joy too.
New York Magazine/Vulture
Alison Willmore
Beneath all the bold subject matter, Pleasure is a disappointingly standard cautionary showbiz story about someone who pursues her dream of stardom with single-minded intensity until she realizes the pursuit has turned her into someone she doesn't like.
NPR
Aisha Harris
An arresting workplace drama-meets-bildungsroman that demystifies the adult film industry without flat-out demonizing it - a delicate balance to strike.
The Reveal (Substack)
Scott Tobias
Though in no way a docudrama, Pleasure is astonishingly persuasive in its depiction of the cold technicalities of porn production.
RogerEbert.com
Katie Rife
Thyberg keeps her cards close throughout Pleasure, using the film's verité framing to obscure the extent of her involvement as a director. The film feels even-handed, in the sense that its fly-on-the-wall style lets situations speak for themselves.
New York Times
Manohla Dargis
If you're curious what a feminist take on this world looks like, "Pleasure" might surprise you as much as it did me.
AV Club
Brent Simon
Pleasure is buoyed and elevated by an outsider's perspective which disengages from both the more voyeuristic elements of its narrative and many distinctly American judgments of them.
Thrillist
Esther Zuckerman
Nothing is that unfamiliar in the plot of Pleasure, but Thyberg, who hails from Sweden, approaches her subject with such a clinical gaze that it's hard to shake the feeling that she's doing something revolutionary
Slant Magazine
Pat Brown
The film fiercely homes in at the moral perversity of an industry at a particular intersection of capitalism, patriarchy, and digital-age spectacle.
Chicago Reader
Josh Flanders
Writer-director Ninja Thyberg explores questions of complicity and consent in the face of fierce coercion.
RogerEbert.com
Carlos Aguilar
Kappel's jaw-dropping and fearless performance blurs fiction and reality.
TheWrap
Alonso Duralde
Thyberg doesn't shy away from the specifics of her milieu, but it's not an exposé on what pornography does to women as much as a harrowing examination of what the workplace expects and allows from women and men.
indieWire
David Ehrlich
Less interested in giving pleasure than in taking it back, Thyberg's film might end on an ambiguous note, but few movies have ever been so eager to bare the simple truth of those words.
The Hollywood Reporter
Leslie Felperin
Grounded in years of meticulous research into the porn scene and cast with actors drawn entirely from that world except for Kappel herself, Pleasure is very persuasive in its evocation of the milieu.
Deadline Hollywood Daily
Todd McCarthy
Any number of films and plays and books have examined this process of moral and spiritual deterioration caused by some form of physical abuse, but Pleasure has the added edge of showing it in vividly realistic terms.
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