L'APOLLONIDE - SOUVENIRS DE LA MAISON CLOSE (HOUSE OF PLEASURES) |
In French with English subtitles. Discussion around coffee and pastries by Coffee Works follows. AWARDS - César 2012 for Best Costume Design REVIEWS It's a gorgeously filmed portrait of a bygone era, with painstaking attention to period detail. V.A. Musetto - New York Post What gives the film its haunting pull, as well as its feminist undercurrent, is the filmmaker's palpable compassion for these women. Jon Frosch - The Atlantic It's about forcing us to think about people we never would otherwise and seeing their struggles and humanity. Mick LaSalle - San Francisco Chronicle |
Inside the cloistered walls of L'Apollonide, an elegant turn-of-the-century brothel, we meet Madame, her "girls" - veterans and newcomers, romantics and cynics, schemers and innocents – and their elite clientele. Updating the period drama with split screens, time shifts and a modern soundtrack, House of Pleasures is a provocative, lush and atmospheric film. Shown with I'm Your Man by Keren Ben Rafael. Discussion around coffee and pastries by Coffee Works follows. Saturday, June 16 - 11pm |
