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Remedy

Cheyenne Picardo's film REMEDY is a cinematic autobiography that revolves around the relationship between the sex worker Remedy and her clients and the feelings around these encounters.

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Cheyenne Picardo’s film REMEDY is based on her own experiences as a sex worker. Remedy starts working as a dominatrix and later as a submissive not because she needed the money but out of personal interest in the BDSM scene in New York, and because someone challenged her: “You could never do that!” There is no sex in the club that Remedy works in – prostitution is illegal in New York, but BDSM clubs are allowed. The problem is not the lack of intensity in the encounters, but an excess of it. Remedy is not hurt or deformed, but her experiences move her so much that she decides to quit the job. Cheyenne Picardo shows some absurd events, like Remedy’s first session as a dominatrix, where she is supposed to give a nasty guy a dental treatment, but instead puts himto to sleep by giving him a foot massage. But more important are other encounters, for example when she meets a friendly flagellant and switches roles with him, resulting in a joyful competition about who can take the most blows.

Remedy likes the physical aspects of her job, but not the psychic ones. She does not offer [sessions where she receives] “extreme humiliation” and she never strips naked, but when a man lets her dance being bound in front of him, this scenes stays with her for a long time. If Remedy is humiliated or aroused in that critical moment, it is not revealed in the film, but it is not important anyway. REMEDY tells of an excess of intensity in the BDSM sessions, something that can not be simply shut off in daily life. Remedy and her clients become very close, but this closeness turns out to be an illusion. Picardo made the film in a very direct and improvised style, citing the films of Mike Leigh as a role model, as well as the film WORKING GIRLS (1986) by avant-gardist Lizzie Borden (not to be confused with Melanie Griffith’s film WORKING GIRL from 1988). She puts the shabbiness of the BDSM studio, where there is always a mop in the corner and some piece of bondage equipment on the edge of tipping over, in contrast to the excitingly staged interactions betweens the people. Picardo said about REMEDY: “The film should do justice to the people in the scene, professional or not. I had to show the good and the bad things, without condemning sex work or the concept of kinky sex.” And she succeeded with this very personal film.

Tom Dorow

Credits

USA 2013, 119 min
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Director: Cheyenne Picardo
Author: Cheyenne Picardo
Music: Mike Gallant
Distributor: déjà-vu film UG
Cast: Kira Davies, Ashlie Atkinson, Júlia Ubrankovics
Release: 22.01.2015

Screenings

  • OV Original version
  • OmU Original with German subtitles
  • OmeU Original with English subtitles
English/with English subtitles
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