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Ashley Hinshaw, James Franco
Cherry by Stephen Elliott
USA 2011, Panorama
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Lili Taylor, Ashley Hinshaw
Cherry by Stephen Elliott
USA 2011, Panorama
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Ashley Hinshaw, Heather Graham
Cherry by Stephen Elliott
USA 2011, Panorama
Eighteen-year-old Angelina works at a launderette and is determined to make something of her life. After earning a bit of cash posing for nude photos she uses the money to escape her white trash background and dysfunctional family and run off to San Francisco with her best pal. After several jobs she gradually drifts into San Francisco’s porn industry where, using the moniker Cherry, her naïve yet sexy aura soon brings her success and the opportunity to explore her own sexuality. This self-confident young woman also has to cope with the many prejudices that exist for someone in her line of work; a lawyer who wants to ‘save’ her turns out to have problems with addiction. Finally, she finds an understanding friend and partner in her director, who has similar problems with her own lover. Before long, Angelina decides to try her hand at directing her own porn film.
In his cinematic debut, director Stephen Eliott’s creates a portrait of a young woman in search of herself and her place in the world that is devoid of false morality and voyeurism and approaches its myth-laden topic of porn with a gaze that is fresh and dispassionate.
In his cinematic debut, director Stephen Eliott’s creates a portrait of a young woman in search of herself and her place in the world that is devoid of false morality and voyeurism and approaches its myth-laden topic of porn with a gaze that is fresh and dispassionate.
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Rezo Films
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Lorelei Lee, Wieland Speck
The co-scriptwriter and the section director in the Berlinale VIP Club.
Cherry · Panorama · Feb 16, 2012
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Vincent Palo, Stephen Elliott, Ashley Hinshaw
The director with his actors in the Berlinale VIP Club.
Cherry · Panorama · Feb 16, 2012
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Lorelei Lee, Stephen Elliott, Ashley Hinshaw
Before the screening in the Friedrichstadt-Palast.
Cherry · Panorama · Feb 16, 2012
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Ashley Hinshaw
The actress in the Friedrichstadt-Palast.
Cherry · Panorama · Feb 16, 2012
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Ashley Hinshaw
Cherry · Panorama · Feb 16, 2012
© Gerhard Kassner / Berlinale
Lorelei Lee (Script, Actress), Ashley Hinshaw (Actress), Stephen Elliott (Director)
Cherry
Panorama · Press Conference · Feb 16, 2012