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      • The film boasts a wildly imaginative style, employing trick shots, split screens, symbolic sequences, anachronistic rock music (including, of all songs, "Nights in White Satin"), and some truly adventurous editing; while Bonello's goals are less narrative than sensual, the result is still very compelling--and occasionally devastating--as drama, thanks in part to the uniformly-excellent ensemble cast and to Bonello's pronounced sympathy for the characters.
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  2. On the review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes, 83% of 30 critics' reviews are positive, with an average rating of 7.2/10. The website's consensus reads: "An atmospheric study of the world of brothels, House of Tolerance digs beyond the corseted courtesans and lingers like the languid days it depicts." [10]

  3. Apr 10, 2012 · Two hours in a late 19th-century Parisian brothel might not be too long for some but French writer-director Bertrand Bonello's film, shown in the Cannes competition last year, makes it seem ...

  4. Jan 26, 2012 · Hidden in the backstreets of Paris lies Bertrand Bonellos House Of Tolerance. A brothel at night, by day a home for hookers; prey to a debt-riddled Madame and the secret wants of masked men.

  5. May 15, 2011 · Editor: Fabrice Rouaud. Music: Bertrand Bonello. Main cast: Noemie Lvovsky, Hafsia Herzi, Celine Sallette, Jasmine Trinca, Adele Haenel, Alice Barnole, Iliana Zabeth, Xavier Beauvois, Louis-Do de...

  6. House of Tolerance: Directed by Bertrand Bonello. With Noémie Lvovsky, Hafsia Herzi, Céline Sallette, Jasmine Trinca. 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.

  7. House of Tolerance (2011) review. Director: Bertrand Bonello. Starring: Alice Barnole, Hafsia Herzi, Céline Sallette, Jasmine Trinca, Adele Haenel, Iliana Zabeth, Noémie Luvovsky, Xavier Beauvois, Louis-Do de Lencquesaing, Esther Garrel

  8. House of Tolerance examines the lives of female prostitutes at the dawn of the 20th century in Paris, with both style and heart. It's a roller coaster of emotion that demonstrates the historic mistreatment of women, and how sisterhood always shines through in the face of patriarchic exploitation.