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... [show more]
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The prostitutes at an early-20th century Paris brothel revel in their hopes and contend with customers who range from the hopelessly smitten to the frighteningly hostile in this visually sumptuous period drama from writerdirector Bertrand Bonello (The Pornographer On War)
French drama portraying life in an upmarket Paris brothel at the beginning of the 20th century. Champagne and opium oil the workings of the house, which is presided over by the sweet-natured Madame, Marie-France (Noémie Lvovsky), herself a former prostitute. As the regulars come and go, each with his own particular set of sexual preferences and perversions, the ever-resourceful working women find ways to cope with the more dangerous aspects of their trade: one girl, Madeleine (Alice Barnole), is tied up and brutally disfigured by a regular client (Laurent Lacotte), while another is dying of syphilis.
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