Fortysomething sex worker Sascha falls for twentysomething Maria, but a visit to her home town forces a reckoning
Henrika Kull’s intimate movie is set in a real-life legal brothel in Berlin. Katharina Behrens plays fortysomething Sascha: a good-natured, easygoing veteran who brusquely calls herself a Nutte, a “tart”, rather than the official term Sexarbeiterin, or sex worker, and she periodically makes tense visits to her home town of Brandenburg to see her 11-year-old son from a previous relationship. She is more or less happy with her life – until suddenly she falls passionately in love with a new girl at the brothel, a twentysomething Italian called Maria, played by the performance artist and former escort Adam Hoya, who as Eva Collé was the subject of the 2019 documentary Searching Eva.
Bliss may or may not illuminate the “sex work is work” debate: certainly, Sascha and Maria’s day-to-day experience of the...
Henrika Kull’s intimate movie is set in a real-life legal brothel in Berlin. Katharina Behrens plays fortysomething Sascha: a good-natured, easygoing veteran who brusquely calls herself a Nutte, a “tart”, rather than the official term Sexarbeiterin, or sex worker, and she periodically makes tense visits to her home town of Brandenburg to see her 11-year-old son from a previous relationship. She is more or less happy with her life – until suddenly she falls passionately in love with a new girl at the brothel, a twentysomething Italian called Maria, played by the performance artist and former escort Adam Hoya, who as Eva Collé was the subject of the 2019 documentary Searching Eva.
Bliss may or may not illuminate the “sex work is work” debate: certainly, Sascha and Maria’s day-to-day experience of the...
- 12/20/2021
- by Peter Bradshaw
- The Guardian - Film News
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