Selected for official competition at Cannes 2011 and nominated for 7 French Csars du Cinema, Bertrand Bonello's House of Tolerance is a highly stylized look at the final days of a turn-of-the-century brothel in Paris bathed in languid beauty and sexuality.In the Nineteenth Century much of the Parisian sex trade was confined to 'maisons closes', populated by elegant madams and a vetted clientele. The ladies were provocatively dressed and, upstairs, occupied numerous boudoirs ready for carnal pleasures. However, even in such a controlled environment, dangers still lurked: disease was rampant and sometimes a gentleman might lose his temper and harm one of the women...
Delphine is the daughter of Limousin farmers who moves to Paris in 1971 and becomes involved in a feminist movement led by a charming renegade called Carole. Their bond becomes closer but when they move back to the countryside, Delphine's home, due to a family emergency they discover that common consensus about their relationship proves to be problematic.
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