House of Pleasures
House of Pleasures

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Life in an elegant early-20th-century Parisian brothel. 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 ev... (Full plot summary below)

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Actors in House of Pleasures:

Noémie Lvovsky
Hafsia Herzi
Céline Sallette
Jasmine Trinca
Adèle Haenel
Alice Barnole

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Life in an elegant early-20th-century Parisian brothel. 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.

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Slant Magazine - 10/10 by Phil ColdironA brief history of time and space, according to Bertrand Bonello.
Chicago Sun-Times - 9/10 by Roger EbertNo one, male or female, has any fun, but the men behave as if they do. They are all half-stupefied by the languor in which they drown.
AV Club - 9/10 by Scott TobiasWithout soft-pedaling it in the least, Bonello nonetheless mourns the passing of a time where prostitutes didn't control their destinies, but at least had each other.
Film4 - 8/10 by Film4 StaffBertrand Bonello's atmospheric, poetic film seduces you with all the skill and subtlety of the courtesans it depicts.
San Francisco Chronicle - 8/10 by Mick LaSalleIt's a strange film, very original and very good. Just by virtue of the subject matter, it can't help but be erotic, and yet eroticism is not the movie's purpose.
MUBI - 8/10 by Daniel KasmanYet there is something else here, mysterious, practically intangible within the confines both of the brothel and the genre, something that leaves the film a lingering quality like smoke left hanging in a vacated room, traces, ghosts, remnants.
Chicago Reader - 8/10 by Ben SachsLike Walter Benjamin, Bonello associates this insularity with both innocence and the 19th century; and when, in the final sequence of House of Pleasures, he dispenses with the security exuded by these subjects, the effect is like being shaken violently out of a dream.
Little White Lies - 8/10 by David JenkinsDazzling and deep. You'll want to go back for more.
Time Out - 8/10 by Trevor JohnstonSeductive on the surface, steely underneath, this is an angry, fascinating, highly political film all wrapped up in costumed frilliness.
Arkansas Democrat-Gazette - 8/10 by Philip Martin... the movie drips with silk and velvet; you can very nearly smell the leather and perfume... But there's another story in the hollow eyes of the assembled courtesans, the palpable air of hopelessness that pervades this pretty, airless film.

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