Portrait of a Call Girl

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Portrait of a Call Girl
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Directed byGraham Travis
Written byGraham Travis
Starring
Cinematography
  • Mason
  • Carlos Dee
  • Alex Ladd
Edited byGraham Travis
Music byBruce Carter
Production
company
Distributed byElegant Angel
Release date
  • August 26, 2011 (2011-08-26)
Running time
148 minutes
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish

Portrait of a Call Girl is a 2011 American pornographic film starring Jessie Andrews, and directed and written by Graham Travis. In 2012, the film received 19 nominations for both creative and technical awards, winning four AVN Awards for best actress, best director, best feature and the AVN's first Movie of the Year award; [1] one XRCO Award for best epic; and six XBIZ Awards for acting performance of the year – female, best cinematography, best non-sex acting performance of the year, director of the year – individual project, and feature movie of the year.

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Release

The film was released as a two-DVD set on August 26, 2011. The first DVD included several special features including a behind-the-scenes featurette, slide show, outtakes, a bonus scene promo teaser and interviews. The second DVD offered a 79:29-minute feature only version, minus any hardcore scenes. [2] [3]

Reception

Critical reviews of Portrait of a Call Girl were mostly favorable, with others acknowledging disappointments. The film received recognition and nominations for editing, art direction, and cinematography. The XBIX Awards honored Mason, Carlos Dee and Alex Ladd with the nod for cinematography, with Travis being honored by both XBIZ and the AVN Awards for Director of the Year for Individual Project and Feature Film, respectively. [4] [5]

Online reviewers Sean DPS and Don Houston of XCritic.com both give the project the site's highest rating of "XCritic Pick" for the Blu-ray and DVD versions of the film. Houston compared the film with selected films touring independent film festivals and director Travis to mainstream director, Steven Soderbergh and his film The Girlfriend Experience . [3] Gram Ponante of fleshbot.com describes the project as a "mainstream film that happens to have sex in it". [6]

Sex and the 405 agreed with Ponante's assessment that the film is "thoughtfully acted, beautifully shot, and sparsely, elegantly orchestrated", yet faulting the script for "tired cliches" including childhood sexual abuse, self-loathing, self-destruction through involvement in the sex industry, and subconsciously crying out for a savior. [7] Sex and the 405 expressed criticism of the fact that professionals from the adult film industry, which operated on the legal side of the fence, would present a film focusing on the illegal branch of the sex industry, the film industry's "marginalized twin". [7] The web site summarized their review stating, "If [the film] didn't perpetuate so many stereotypes about prostitution, we'd be tempted to thank the studio for keeping it real — ish. But its problems are a little too big to ignore." [7]

Awards and nominations

Awards & nominations
AwardWonNominated
AVN Awards
411
XBIZ Awards
69
XRCO Awards
11
Total number of wins and nominations
Totals1020
CeremonyCategoryRecipientResult
AVN Awards [5] [8] Best actress Jessie Andrews Won
Best director – featureGraham TravisWon
Best featureWon
Movie of the year [1] Won
Best boy / girl sex sceneJessie Andrews and Manuel Ferrara Nominated
Best cinematographyMason, Carlos Dee and Alex LaddNominated
Best DVD extrasNominated
Best editingGraham TravisNominated
Best oral sex sceneJessie AndrewsNominated
Best screenplayGraham TravisNominated
Best three-way sex scene (G/B/B)Jessie Andrews, Mick Blue and Ramon NamorNominated
XBIZ Awards [4] [9] Feature movie of the yearWon
Director of the year – individual projectGraham TravisWon
Acting performance of the year – femaleJessie AndrewsWon
Non-sex acting performance of the yearAlec KnightWon
Non-sex acting performance of the yearEric SwissNominated
Screenplay of the yearGraham TravisWon
Best cinematographyMason, Carlos Dee and Alex LaddWon
Best art directionNominated
Best editingGraham TravisNominated
XRCO Awards [10] Best epicWon

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