Mar 29, 2012 | SFGate
'House of Pleasures,' review: French bordello
House of Pleasures Drama. Starring Hafsia Herzi, Celine Sallett and Noemie Lvovsky.
Family, sexuality and the financial crisis are just some of the subjects explored in this year's French Film Festival.
A GMT Prods., Les Films du Lendemain, Morena Films presentation, in co-production with France 5 Cinema, Euro Media France, Invest Image, with the participation of Canal Plus, Cine Plus, France Televisions, in association with Le Banque Postale-Image 5, Palatine Etoile 9, Soficinema 7, with the support of Region Ile-de-France, Procirep/Angoa.
Marie-France Noemie Lvovsky Samira Hafsia Herzi Clotilde Celine Sallette Julie Jasmine Trinca Lea Adele Haenel Madeleine Alice Barnole Sundance Selects presents a film written and directed by Bertrand Bonello.
In this lush, atmospheric look at the final days of an elegant, turn-of-the-century brothel, we go inside the cloistered walls of L'Apollonide to meet the Madam , her elite clientele, and some dozen "girls" - veterans and newcomers, romantics and cynics, schemers and innocents.
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