L'Apollonide
(Souvenirs de la maison close)
Genres: Drama / Adult
Year: 2011
Director: Bertrand Bonello
Cast: Noémie Lvovsky / Hafsia Herzi / Céline Sallette / Jasmine Trinca / Adèle Haenel / Alice Barnole /
Iliana
Zabeth / Pauline Jacquard / Anaïs Thomas / Maia Sandoz / Joanna
Grudzinska / Esther Garrel / Xavier Beauvois / Louis-Do de Lencquesaing /
Jacques Nolot
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.
2011,
no subtitle,
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