While the 2020 SXSW Film Festival has been canceled, IndieWire is covering select titles from this year’s edition.As probably the single most stigmatized profession, sex work and have long held a salacious fascination for filmmakers.
From “Pretty Woman” to “True Romance,” sex workers are either depicted as the “hooker with the heart of gold” or a damsel in distress needing salvation (typically from a man).
It wasn’t until recently that filmmakers started creating more nuanced takes on the world’s oldest profession, embracing sex workers as fully autonomous characters who don’t all secretly hate what they do or long to be rescued.More from IndieWire’Bloodshot’ Review: Vin Diesel’s Comic-Book Movie Is a Delightfully Asinine DistractionSXSW Winners: Despite Cancellation, Festival Announces Grand Jury PrizesFilms such as “Cam” (Netflix) and TV shows like “Harlots” (Hulu) and “The Girlfriend Experience” (Starz) each move beyond tired tropes seeking only
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