Synopsis
House of Tolerance (2011) 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.

Awards: 6 wins & 15 nominations
Budget: â?¬4,000,000 (estimated)
Worldwide Gross: $1,389,920
Soundtrack: Bad Girl Part 1 ((1967))


Bertrand Bonello
Noémie Lvovsky, Hafsia Herzi, Céline Sallette
2011-11-25 (France)
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