Set in the pre-broadband era of Las Vegas, 1998, Numa Perrier’s Jezebel is a sensitive rather than exploitative look at legal, entry-level sex work that’s realistic without being explicit. A family unit sleep five to a suite in a roadside motel, led by de facto matriarch Sabrina (played by writer-director Perrier). The men in the home–including boyfriend David (Bobby Field), a former phone sex client of hers–barely work, heading down to the strip for cheap beers after pre-gaming at home. Sabrina is the matriarch because she brings in revenue working as a phone sex operator from home, although her pay is not quite enough as the family deals with their ill, off-screen mother. Their mother was largely cared for by Tiffany (Tiffany Tenille), and once their mother has passed, our protagonist is sent off to the job market.
Adapting the persona Jezebel, 19-year-old Tiffany is instructed to...
Adapting the persona Jezebel, 19-year-old Tiffany is instructed to...
- 3/24/2019
- by John Fink
- The Film Stage
Filmmaker Numa Perrier calls Jezebel a story of “coming of womanhood…Black Womanhood.” The film, which she wrote and directed, is based on a true story and follows 19-year-old Tiffany (Tiffany Tenille) as she deals with her dying mother and tries to make ends meet by working as an internet fetish cam girl. In the clip above, we see Tiffany come at odds with her boss at her place of work as she encounters a client using the N-word. It’s a taste of what’s to come in Perrier’s feature directorial debut which will make its world premiere at SXSW in Austin March 9.
In the film, Tiffany crashes with five family members in a Las Vegas studio apartment in the last days of her mother’s life. In order to make ends meet, her older sister, a phone sex operator, introduces her to the world of internet fetish cam girls.
In the film, Tiffany crashes with five family members in a Las Vegas studio apartment in the last days of her mother’s life. In order to make ends meet, her older sister, a phone sex operator, introduces her to the world of internet fetish cam girls.
- 2/20/2019
- by Dino-Ray Ramos
- Deadline Film + TV
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