House of Pleasures

House of Pleasures

2011 · 126 min · FR · NR · 6.5 (213 votes)
Dir. Bertrand Bonello · Starring Noémie Lvovsky, Hafsia Herzi, Céline Sallette, Jasmine Trinca, Adèle Haenel, Alice Barnole · Music Bertrand Bonello
Drama

A young woman begins a new life at the Apollonide bordello, a high-class brothel in Paris at the turn of the 20th century.

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A languid, sensual dive into a Parisian brothel. It feels like a velvet-lined box of secrets, where intimacy and isolation intertwine. The film is a slow, deliberate exploration of female desire and the complex bonds formed within its gilded cage.

sensualmelancholicintimateprovocativeslow-burnperiod dramaarthouseerotic dramaatmosphericfemale desiresisterhoodexploitationidentity
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parisfrancebrotheleroticismsexual fantasysexual humiliationprostitutionsexual desiresexual favorsexual explorationsexual experimentationsexual relationshipsexual attitudessexual discoverysexual education
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