L.Apollonide.Souvenirs.De.La.Maison.Close.FRENCH.
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Title: House of Tolerance
AKA: House of Pleasures
Year: 2011
Original title: L'Apollonide (Souvenirs de la maison close)
Runtime: 1h 59mins
Country: France
Language: French
Subtitles: None
Genre: Drama
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Aspect Ratio: 1.857:1
Resolution: 624 x 336
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Audio Format: MP3
Audio Bitrate: 32 Kbps
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Stars:Hafsia Herzi, Céline Sallette and Jasmine Trinca
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 provocatively dressed and, upstairs, occupied numerous
boudoirs ready for carnal pleasures. Even in such a controlled environment, dangers still lurked: disease was rampant and lethal, and
sometimes even a gentleman might lose his temper and harm one of the women. House of Tolerance immerses us in this long-abandoned
world, awash with opium, champagne and the inevitable rush of semen. The film’s pace accentuates the languor of the place, its many
personages slowly revealing their life journeys like an old-fashioned striptease. Several of the stories are grim: country girls desperate for
money, dumped from failed relationships or, most difficult to watch, slashed with a knife for little apparent reason. And yet there is grace,
especially in the daytime moments of sisterly camaraderie and the casual yet oddly affectionate deceits of the madam (in a stern turn from
the formidable Noémie Lvovsky). This spirit carries into moments when modernity intrudes, most notably in a penultimate dance — as the
brothel is about to be closed under order of the mayor — to the tune of an oddly appropriate “Nights in White Satin.” ~ TIFF
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