Dir: Ninja Thyberg. Starring: Sofia Kappel, Revika Anne Reustle, Evelyn Claire, Chris Cock, Dana DeArmond, Kendra Spade, Jason Toler. 18, 105 minutes.
Linnea (Sofia Kappel) is on the phone to her mother, crumbling into pieces. She wants to leave Los Angeles, return home to Sweden. Her job’s become far too much to stomach. There’s no choice now but to give up. Sure, but as her mother warns her: “There’ll always be people who want to bring you down, especially if you’re a young woman.” What a sage piece of advice – but would her mother feel any differently if she knew her 19-year-old daughter wasn’t, in fact, in America for a cushy internship? Linnea is a performer in adult films. And porn, as Pleasure argues, is like any other industry, though the vulnerability it demands from its workers, especially its women, pushes the stakes so much higher.
