House of Tolerance (L'Apollonide (Souvenirs de la maison close)) (2011)

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6.7	IMDB rating

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Directed by

Bertrand Bonello

Starring (View all)

Noémie Lvovsky
Marie-France

Hafsia Herzi
Samira

Céline Sallette
Clotilde

Jasmine Trinca
Julie

Adele Haenel
Léa

Alice Barnole
Madeleine

Iliana Zabeth
Pauline

Judith Lou Lévy
Une prostituée

Written by

Bertrand Bonello
(scenario)

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Description: Bertrand Bonello’s highly stylized look at the final days of a fin-de-siècle brothel in Paris conjures up the languid beauty and frank sexuality of French Romantic painting. Its visual sumptuousness lands somewhere between Ingres and Renoir but with stylistic provocations worthy of a time-travelling Baudelaire. In the nineteenth century, much of the Parisian sex trade was confined to grands maisons, populated by elegant madams and a vetted clientele. They were akin to social clubs, with the gentleman participants expected to be as charming and witty as they might be in more respectable drawing rooms. The ladies were ... (more)