Pleasure

Pleasure (2021)

Timing: 1:48 (108 min)

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All about film

Video 8

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Actors and characters

Release date

2021-10-08

Country

France, Netherlands, Sweden

Production

Film i Väst, Flamboyance Films, Lemming Film, Plattform Produktion, SVT, Logical Pictures, Grand Slam Film Production, SF Studios

Genre

Drama

Budget

$1 800 000

Revenue

$393 824

Website

https://www.neonrated.com/film/pleasure

Director

Ninja Thyberg

Actors

Sofia Kappel, Zelda Morrison, Tee Reel, Evelyn Claire, Chris Cock, Dana DeArmond, Kendra Spade, Mark Spiegler, Eva Melander, Lucy Hart
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Scenario

Producer

Erik Hemmendorff, Markus Waltå, Eliza Jones, Pape Boye, Violaine Pichon

Operator

Sophie Winqvist

Composer

Karl Frid

Artist

Audition

Ninja Thyberg, Maja Kin, Svante Åhman

Editing

Olivia Neergaard-Holm, Amalie Westerlin Tjellesen, Hollywood Heard
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• Many of the actors involved in the film have, at one time or another, appeared in pornography or were otherwise associated with the Los Angeles porn industry. Director and screenwriter Ninja Thyberg met many of them while gathering material for the future film and writing the screenplay, and discovered that they improvised brilliantly.
• Sofia Kappel's (who played Bella) first appearance on screen. She went to the audition as part of a CBT (Cognitive Behavioral Therapy – a form of psychotherapy focused on changing a patient’s thoughts, behaviors, and emotions) course.
• The project began with an essay by Ninni Tuber on the pornography industry, written for a gender studies course. She further explored this theme in her 2013 short film “Pleasure,” which won an award at the Cannes Film Festival.
• The film was shot over 25 days in September-October 2018, but some scenes were reshot in Sweden a year later.
• This was Bill Bailey’s last film (where he played Adam). The film premiered almost two years after his untimely death as a result of a fall from a hotel balcony in Mexico City.
• Initially, the film was acquired at the Sundance Film Festival by the American independent entertainment company A24 (which specializes in the production of films and television programs, as well as film distribution). A24 planned to release two versions of the film – the director’s cut and a censored version, but Ninni Tuber naturally disliked the latter option. Ultimately, in October 2021, A24 sold the film to Neon (an independent film production and distribution company), which released only the director’s cut in May 2022.