The Pleasure Is Mine

Sacha Amaral's irreverent and sexually charged debut explores the life of a young hustler in Buenos Aires working to seduce and steal from clients.

Max Suen gives a charismatic performance as Antonio, who makes a living out of hustling; whether it’s selling drugs or post-coital theft from various hookups, his easy magnetism facilitates his lifestyle. Volatile interactions with his mother – oscillating between intimate and vitriolic – will lead him to seek out intimacy in the most unexpected places in this engrossing character study.

Max Suen plays Antonio with a fiery, weaponised charm, with writer-director Sacha Amaral adding a small orrery of characters – circling around a bright, pulsing star who brings heat and light to them all and impressively constructed universe.