
The directorial debut of Nicola Peltz with the film "Lola" has been evaluated by critics and viewers as a "vanity project".
The 29-year-old actress wrote, directed and starred in the film, which premiered on February 9. She plays the female protagonist, a teenage girl who works to raise enough money to be able to move her and her younger brother out of the home they share with their mother.
Critics have called the film "a glorified advertisement" for Peltz and accused him of "poverty porn," meaning the exploitation of poverty for entertainment and artistic recognition.
"There is nothing really surprising or new in the poorly written and stereotypical melodramatic story of Lola, which is mostly implemented as standard structures of contrived tension and overt emotional caper," writes In Review Online.
Meanwhile, the critic of the Guardian described the work as a "funny film" and wrote: "Lola, whose protagonist falls from one traumatic experience to another, does not explore difficulties, but exploits them".
Nicola Peltz suffers unexpected backlash as her gritty directorial debut Lola is torn to shreds by unimpressed critics - with scathing reviews dismissing it as 'poverty porn' and an exploitative 'vanity project' https://t.co/OEQjbxKE9j pic.twitter.com /KODORI5wD2
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