Year: 2011
Duration: 120 min.
Directed by: Bertrand Bonello
Actors: Noémie Lvovsky, Hafsia Herzi, Céline Sallette
Language: French | English Subs
Country: France
Also known as: L’Apollonide (Souvenirs de la maison close), Дом терпимости, House of Pleasures
Description: Life in an elegant Parisian brothel in the early twentieth century. The madam essentially owns the women: their expenses exceed earnings, they are in debt. They face problems of pregnancy, opium, age, and violent clients. One reads sociology at her peril. Occasionally, a client talks of marriage. There are also friendships and affection among the women. The madam is in a dispute with her landlord and calls on influential clients to help. There’s a picnic one summer day, a wake, and an evening in masks. Have they expectations? In a coda, we watch a street scene in contemporary Paris. ~ IMDB
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