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“I’m using the [porn] industry as an allegory to say something about patriarchy, capitalism, the American Dream,” says director Ninja Thyberg of her searing debut feature
Complex, candid porn drama Pleasure and pitch-black sex-business satire Red Rocket follow in the writhing wake of Boogie Nights et al
New films like Good Luck to You, Leo Grande are challenging cinematic tropes about sex workers. It's a refreshing change, writes Rafa Sales Ross.
Cinema theorists’ most hallowed idea, the ‘male gaze’, is being upturned by a feminist wave – but old ideas, as two new films show, die hard
The film title Pleasure begs the question, who’s pleasure? Since first-time feature director Ninja Thyberg’s cautionary drama depicts the journey of a newcomer intent on becoming the Los Angeles adult film industry’s top female performer, the pleasure in question self-evidently isn’t hers, but that taken by the hordes of men who’ll watch her being systematically degraded on Pornhub and its ilk.