by Jason Adams
I hope you'll forgive me since I'm the member of Team TFE that pays the scantest attention possible to Awards Season, but when I watched half of the Independent Spirits this past weekend I was extremely confused to see that Ninja Thyberg's porn industry drama Pleasure had been nominated for a few awards, and it threw me down a rabbit hole of confusion with regards to that movie's release. I saw it at Sundance last year (that is in 2021) and I was blown away by it, and I had been waiting, waiting, waiting, for news of a release...
until the film had eventually slipped my mind altogether (since there have been a lot of things happening in the world, and all). So when it popped up at the Spirits I thought I must have missed a small release!
But no! I had not! Because Neon has just dropped the poster and the first trailer today, and I've got it for you below. (And this is the red-band one because this movie demands red-band - click here if you'd rather watch the green-band one.) Pleasure stars Sofia Kappel (giving it all and then ten more alls for emphasis) as Bella Cherry, a new porn girl in town (that would be Los Angeles, natch), and we follow her brief Star Is Born trajectory through the modern sex industry. Not a movie for everyone, but a great and unforgettable movie nonetheless, I very much recommend when it hits theaters on May 13th.