HEnrika Kull’s intimate film is set in real-life Berlin’s legal brothels. Katharina Behrens plays Sascha in her forties: a kind, easy-going veteran who bluntly calls herself prostitute, A “pie”, not an official term Sex workerOr a sex worker, she regularly visits her hometown of Brandenburg for intensive visits to visit her 11-year-old son who was previously in love. She was more or less satisfied with her life-until suddenly she fell in love with a new girl in the brothel, a twenty-something Italian named Maria, played by performance artist and former escort Adam Hoya, She plays Eva Collé.This 2019 documentary “Looking for Eva”.
Bliss may or may not clarify the “sex work is work” argument: of course, the daily experiences of Sascha and Maria in the oldest professions are described frankly and without problems, and prostitution itself has not become a dramatic way. one question.Way is Lizzie Borden’s 1986 film “Working Girl”New customers can ask to see all the women in turn. They must line up in the corridors of the brothel in their underwear and be formally introduced to the man before he makes a choice. The payment is cash-perhaps these people don’t want unexplainable items in their statements. Maria hid her things in the lockers at the train station, and she left a sad and affectionate voice message to the widow father in Italy.
When Maria went to a community festival in Brandenburg with her, the relationship between Sasha and Maria was in crisis. The local drunk people made Sasha angry and uncomfortable; when Maria said she was a “performer”, Sasha corrected her contemptuously: “She is a prostitute like me.” Could it be that Maria still dreams of doing something else with her life, and Sasha has no imagination? The performance styles of Behrens and De La Hoya are quite different-De La Hoya is more opaque – but it is a sharp, frank play.
