Exploitation (film)

Exploitation is a 2012 drama film written and directed by Edwin Brienen. The film celebrated its world premiere at the Lausanne Underground Film and Music Festival in October 2012.

Plot
Eva (Eva Dorrepaal) auditions for a role in an obscure arthouse film. An anonymous, masked director (played by British actor Tomas Sinclair Spencer) creates an intimidating atmosphere. He dominates and humiliates Eva, forcing her into prostitution. She sleeps with a Jewish film producer named Josh (played by Jaron Löwenberg). When he refuses to help her financially, Eva blackmails him by threatening to tell his wife that they slept together.

Back on the film set, Eva’s heading towards her own downfall. It’s just a matter of time before her individuality and emotions are eliminated for ‘the sake of art’.

LUFF Film festival
Exploitation celebrated its world premiere at the Lausanne Underground Film and Music Festival, October 20, 2012. The LUFF website writes about the film: “This gothic-noir satiric fresco transports us into the superficial world of film industry: a business without mercy that only seeks to copy itself without taking any risks. Very auto-reflexive, hilarious at moments, and very dark at others, the film does not hide its preoccupation with a society numbed by its own cliches that it exploits endlessly. Clairvoyant, provoking, and esthetically very interesting, the film is calmer and more easily accessible to a non initiated public than its predecessors.”