"Are you ready to make a banana happy?" Neon has dropped the first official trailer for Pleasure, an acclaimed, spicy new critical drama about the porn industry in Los Angeles. The film initially ...

In director/cowriter Ninja Thyberg’s auspicious film debut, “Pleasure,” Bella Cherry (Sofia Kappel) arrives in LA from Sweden full of aspiration and determination. Underneath her self-confidence, ...

There’s a lot of talk about authenticity in Hollywood these days. Whether it’s media about the lives of people of color, LGBTQ folks, first-generation immigrants, or another marginalized group, the ...

Movies such as “Boogie Nights” have attempted to depict the porn industry in a feature film, but no film has ever shown just how raw, shocking and disturbing porn can be quite like Ninja Thyberg’s ...

I’ve been working on the topic for a very long time. I made a short film with the same title. It premiered in Cannes in 2013 and Sundance the year after. I got the inspiration for that story while ...

film profile], Bella Cherry swaps Sweden for a porn career in Los Angeles, but soon finds out there is still a lot to be learnt. Then again, if it's innocence that everyone seems to be buying, one ...

While the screen is still black and as the opening credits begin rolling, the unmistakable sound of sex fills the space for several seconds: men grunting and panting, a woman gagging and panting, ...

The final shot of “Pleasure,” Ninja Thyberg’s bold and provocative feature about Bella Cherry (Sofia Kappel), a young adult film actress navigating the porn industry, sees her in a limousine, having ...

There is nothing glamorous about the porn industry. There’s plenty of degradation of its young actresses, some of it by choice. And even achieving stardom doesn’t deliver what it appeared to promise.

The screenwriter-director Ninja Thyberg and the actor Sofia Kappel discuss creating a porn industry drama through a feminist lens. By Beatrice Loayza When Ninja Thyberg, the screenwriter and director ...

If you follow the adult movie industry in any way, you should be familiar with the lingo used in the movie which includes “boy-girl,” “interracial” and other descriptions of scenes that are filmed ...

Swedish director Ninja Thyberg is the winner of this year’s annual Women in Motion Young Talent Award, bestowed by the Kering Group and the Cannes Film Festival to a standout first-time female ...