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The story is set in a luxurious Parisian brothel (a 'maison close', like Le Chabanais) in the early 20th century. It explores the restricted lives of a group of prostitutes: their rivalries, hopes, fears, pleasures and pains.
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.
May 15, 2011 · 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...
May 16, 2011 · Divided into three parts (the latter part of the 19th century, the dawn of the 20th and the ending), House of Tolerance chronicles daily life and depicts an affective portrait of women trapped in a golden cage. Through a newcomer to the brothel, Bonello steadily unveils how this excluded world works, but also saves some surprises, both musical ...
Nov 25, 2011 · Slowly creeping up from what at first seems to only be empirical beauty, House of Tolerance unveils an emotional core in its finale that offers a level of cumulative catharsis that reaches inexplicable heights.
Jan 26, 2012 · House Of Tolerance. Hidden in the backstreets of Paris lies Bertrand Bonello’s House Of Tolerance. A brothel at night, by day a home for hookers; prey to a debt-riddled Madame and the...
Synopsis. The dawn of the 20th century: L’Apollonide, a luxurious and traditional brothel in Paris, is living its last days. In this closed world, where some men fall in love and others become viciously harmful, the women share their secrets, their fears, their joys and their pains. Remove Ads. Cast. Crew.