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In his out of Sundance, Variety film critic Owen Gleiberman wrote that “Pleasure” takes “a stark, disturbingly authentic plunge into what the porn world has become…’Pleasure’ has the clinical look and feel of a documentary pegged to the frame of a fictionalized story. It’s a coldly artful and explicit piece of anthropological voyeurism, and its subject is what pornography has become — what it is, what it’s selling, why the people who perform in it are drawn to it, what it does for them, what it does to them and what it’s doing to all of us.”
We look back at the west coast publication Adam Film World by re-publishing all the issues published from 1984. An offshoot of Adam and Adam Film Quarterly, the first of which launched in the 1950s, Adam Film World had earned the reputation as a reliable profiler of porn films, stars and culture. Its success spawned a series of guides and directories and even an incursion into awards territory, including the X-Caliber and AFWG Awards.
Opening up about the ‘worst’ type of content to film, he added: “The worst is feeder porn work.
Adult film photographer reveals the ‘worst’ porn he’s ever witnessed behind the scenes
Neon’s official synopsis for “Pleasure” reads: “Ninja Thyberg’s debut feature film ‘Pleasure’ is a journey into the Los Angeles porn industry through the lens of newcomer Bella Cherry (Sofia Kappel). Strong, self-confident and determined, Bella embarks on a mission to become the best at any cost.”
