Pulsation

Adult Material

Swiss Premiere

Lucy Kirkwood / United Kingdom / 2020 / 198 min / Drama, Comedy
English / Subtitles French

Jolene Dollar has to manage a busy family life and her job as England’s most popular porn star. The aim was to find the right tone to evoke without judgment the porn industry and its (or our?) fantasies and tragedies. Screened in full, a revelation.

The torments of a porn star, who is also a mother. It is easy to imagine what a Ken Loach or a Michael Winterbottom would have made with such a premise. Lucy Kirkwood chooses her own way, creating a strong female character, who neither accepts to submit to the dictates of porn nor to the censors of the British establishment. A magnificent portrait of a working-class girl, driven by Harley Squires (I, Daniel Blake).

Creation

Lucy Kirkwood

Direction

Dawn Shadforth

Screenplay

Lucy Kirkwood

Image

Chloë Thomson

Editing

Dominic Leung

Music

Hannah Holland

Production

Fifty Fathoms Productions (Patrick Spence), Fifty Fathoms Productions (Sara Hamill)

Executive Production

Lucy Kirkwood, Fifty Fathoms Productions (Patrick Spence), Kath Mattock

With

Hayley Squires, Siena Kelly, Kerry Godliman, Joe Dempsie, Julian Ovenden, Phil Daniels, Rupert Everett

International sales

Banijay Rights Limited (Banijay Rights)

Broadcaster

Channel 4