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

House of Tolerance (DVD) (*)

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Original Title: L'Apollonide (Souvenirs de la maison close)
Alternate Title: House of Pleasures
Screened, competed or awarded at:
Cannes Film Festival
Other Film Festival Awards

Language Selections:
English ( Subtitles )
French ( Dolby Digital 5.1 )
French ( Dolby Digital Stereo )

Product Origin/Format:
United Kingdom ( PAL/Region 2 )

Running Time:
121 min + 51 min extras

Aspect Ratio:
Anamorphic Widescreen (1.85:1)

Special Features:
Anamorphic Widescreen
Cast/Crew Interview(s)
Interactive Menu
Making Of
Scene Access

Movie filmed in 2011 and produced in:
France ( France, Benelux )

Directed By:
Bertrand Bonello

Written By:
Bertrand Bonello

Actors:
Noémie Lvovsky ..... Marie-France
Hafsia Herzi ..... Samira
Céline Sallette ..... Clotilde
Jasmine Trinca ..... Julie
Adèle Haenel ..... Léa
Alice Barnole ..... Madeleine
Iliana Zabeth ..... Pauline
Pauline Jacquard
Anaïs Thomas
Maia Sandoz
Joanna Grudzinska
Esther Garrel
Xavier Beauvois
Louis-Do de Lencquesaing
Jacques Nolot

Synopsis:

Selected for official competition at Cannes 2011 and nominated for 7 French Césars du Cinema, Bertrand Bonello's House of Tolerance is a highly stylised 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...

Life in an elegant Parisian brothel in the early twentieth century. 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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