House of tolerance 2011

At an elegant Parisian bordello at the dawn of the 20th century exists a cloistered world of pleasure, pain, hope, rivalries--and, most of all, slavery.

The film had its world premiere in the Competition section of the Cannes Film Festival on 16 May The story is set in a luxurious Parisian brothel a 'maison close', like Le Chabanais in the early 20th century, and follows the closeted life of a group of prostitutes: their rivalries, hopes, fears, pleasures and pains. The genesis of the project was a merge of two film ideas Bertrand Bonello had been thinking of. About ten years earlier, he had tried to make a film about modern brothels, but the project had been cancelled. After finishing On War , Bonello decided that he wanted his next film to be about dynamics within a group of women, and his partner suggested a film about prostitutes in a historical setting.

House of tolerance 2011

Bertrand Bonello's "House of Pleasures" is a morose elegy to the decline of a luxurious Parisian bordello, circa , a closed world in which prostitutes and their clients glide like sleepwalkers through the motions of sex. Elegant and detailed production design creates L'Apollonide, a high-priced whorehouse on a respectable boulevard, where a madam and her women of commerce lead a life as cloistered as in a convent, or a prison. In only one scene, a swimming party on a riverbank, are the girls allowed outside. The house supplies all their needs. There is a stately entrance hall with marble statuary and a staircase leading up to a drawing room that is a cocoon of overstuffed sofas, plush cushions, Oriental rugs, ancient brass lamps, candles, sometimes music on a piano. Here rich men languish with champagne and tobacco while beautiful young women, expensively dressed or undressed, cuddle and caress them, and the madam's sleek black panther dozes on a velvet settee. Occasionally they go upstairs. The house rules specify that the prostitutes remain on duty until the last client has gone home, but they can sleep as late as they wish. This is in a lazy dormitory, a separate private area. The women sleep three to a bed like sisters, eat together around the same jolly table on which they submit to medical examinations, bathe together, dress and groom one another, gossip and console. They lead comfortable lives and always look fashionable, not for their comfort but for the clients. Why do they come here to work?

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Possessing static architecture and a cast of low-key actors, the film does not have the energy required to infect even the most vulnerable viewer with its despair or its occasional lightheartedness. Bonello set his film at the end of the 19th century, a transitional time for the sex industry. Brothels could no longer pay for themselves, so the community of women who lived and worked in them split up, individuals moving to the more solitary and dangerous life peddling flesh on the street. The overall feel is claustrophobic, and Bonello and the Madame do not let the women go outside, at least alone, for fear of being charged with solicitation. Most of the women were in serious debt to the Madame, so did not have the freedom to move out and possibly attempt to earn money in a different fashion. What is up on the screen is a stuffy prison of a workplace, so architecturally self-conscious that its use becomes mannered. The overall feel is enervation and resignation.

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House of tolerance 2011

Possessing static architecture and a cast of low-key actors, the film does not have the energy required to infect even the most vulnerable viewer with its despair or its occasional lightheartedness. Bonello set his film at the end of the 19th century, a transitional time for the sex industry. Brothels could no longer pay for themselves, so the community of women who lived and worked in them split up, individuals moving to the more solitary and dangerous life peddling flesh on the street. The overall feel is claustrophobic, and Bonello and the Madame do not let the women go outside, at least alone, for fear of being charged with solicitation. Most of the women were in serious debt to the Madame, so did not have the freedom to move out and possibly attempt to earn money in a different fashion. What is up on the screen is a stuffy prison of a workplace, so architecturally self-conscious that its use becomes mannered. The overall feel is enervation and resignation. Even though the women stick together, it is a community of inertness. Except for a few downplayed dramatic scenes — one of the women Lvovsky has her face sliced by a client, another Trinca succumbs to syphilis, the youngest girl Zabeth escapes — almost no dramatic tension passes through the edifice.

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Edit page. Reviews Sleep-walking through sexual commerce. Iliana Zabeth Pauline. The house supplies all their needs. More to explore. English press kit L'Apollonide. Cannes Film Festival. Women in Science Fiction. I told the actresses: 'Be careful, I want twelve intelligent girls. She doesn't like this game and asks him to stop. Article Talk.

A young woman begins a new life at the Apollonide bordello, a high-class brothel in Paris at the turn of the 20th century. Kristina Larsen Bertrand Bonello. Joanna Grudzinska Richard Rosseau.

Toggle limited content width. Reviews Sleep-walking through sexual commerce. Bonello says he dreamed about the film two nights in a row while he was writing House of Tolerance , and decided to include a female character with such a scar. Bonello wanted a mixed ensemble of both professionals and amateurs who above all worked well together as a group. Storyline Edit. Find out more. Madeleine Alice Barnole has the illusion that she and her favorite client love each other. Best Film. The project feels constipated through and through. FAQ Time and space are unclear.