Sex Doll

Sex Doll (2016) is a French-British drama directed by Sylvie Verheyde, available to watch online on iFILM. Virginie is a young Frenchwoman in London — organized, composed, and working high-end escort jobs with practiced detachment. Rated 18+.

Hafsia Herzi plays her without performed suffering, which is the whole point. Rupert — Ash Stymest — is an unusual figure: a man who pulls trafficking victims out of bad situations, not a rescuer in the movie sense. He doesn't try to fix Virginie. He just sees her. Karole Rocher and Paul Hamy fill out a London that Verheyde photographs with a flat, unsentimental eye.

Slow and quietly unsettling — this is closer to auteur drama than social commentary, and better for it. Stream Sex Doll (2016) on iFILM.