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REMEDY

The One That Got Away

2013.
Date Added: 2024/06/16
Directed by Cheyenne Picardo
Runtime: 115 min.
Country: United States
Language: English
Closed Captions: English, French


A young woman must confront her physical and emotional boundaries as she enters the world of professional domination and submission.

REMEDY follows a young woman from the underground kink clubs of New York City into the world of commodified BDSM where workers are paid to embody the sexual and psychological fantasies of complete strangers.

Despite her habitually submissive tastes, the woman finds a job as a dominatrix at a commercial dungeon, working under the pseudonym “Mistress Remedy.” Before long her personal proclivities peek through the veneer. She begins to show her compliant side to a few regulars.

Soon an unscrupulous night manager asks Remedy to session with dominant clients, where she will be the client’s slave for the hour. The job sounds easy and the money is better — she accepts. Remedy quickly realizes that her submissiveness at home does not prepare her for the pressures and risks of this lesser-known side of the sexual service industry. Should she leave? Or should she stay and prove to everyone — including herself — that she can handle it?

REMEDY is a universal story of a woman who gets involved in something that seems manageable, only to find out that it isn’t — yet pride won’t let her walk away.A film for all the pros who couldn’t hack it — and a tribute to the ones who can.

“A quiet, thoughtful portrait of a subculture. Our subculture. It doesn’t seek to proselytize about sex work. It simply shows us a brief glimpse of what it can actually look like and, in doing so, manages to capture the relationships that exist between sex workers and clients, the complexity of their interactions, and the fundamental humanity that lies at the heart of exchanges of intimacy.” – The Professional

“Remedy manages the rare feat of functioning well as pornography and as a narrative exploration of its characters.” – the abandoned cinema

As seen in Boston Globe, Rolling Stone, and Filmmaker Magazine.

A hybrid of creative biography and narrative fiction, REMEDY is based on director Cheyenne Picardo’s experiences working as a pro-switch in New York City. The film explores the good, the bad, the offensive, the cruel, the hysterical, and the plain weird aspects of commercial BDSM. It provides insight without passing judgment, but only as fast as Remedy herself gets the information, and no faster.

“Thunder Thief” written and performed by Schaffer the Darklord.
Opening animation and titles by Kelly Bray.
Sound remix by Kerry Smith.

Curator's Note: PinkLabel.TV is curated by its creator Shine Louise Houston based on a set of criteria that aims to expand our notions of adult film. Our collection includes erotic and adult videos that often exist outside of conventional pornography, whether in depictions of bodies and desires that are underrepresented in commercial porn, through titles with historical cultural relevance, or movies with original concepts and cinematic craft. With these factors taken into consideration, we hope you enjoy the film.



Production Date: 2013
"Best Narrative Feature"
2013 CineKink NYC
Official Selectino
2013 Seattle Erotic Arts Festival
World Premiere
2014 PornFilmFestival Berlin
Directors' Choice Award "Best Feature"
2015 Boston Underground Film Festival
Official Selectino
2014 Nachtschatten BDSM/Fetish Film Festival
Official Selection
2014 Le Fete du Slip, Switzerland
"Best International Director" Nominee
2014 Female Eye Film Festival Toronto
BEST POSTER, BEST SONG
2013 FETISCH FILM FESTIVAL





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