House of Tolerance
Not Rated
02 hours 02 minutes
- Noémie Lvovsky, Hafsia Herzi, Céline Sallette
- Bertrand Bonello
- Drama
- November 25, 2011
- French
- 6.7
- French
Synopsis
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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