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House of Tolerance

Country: France, Language: French, 122 mins

Original Title

L'Apollonide (Souvenirs de la maison close)
  • Director: Bertrand Bonello
  • Writer: Bertrand Bonello
  • Producer: Bertrand Bonello; Kristina Larsen

CGiii Comment

Atmospheric, luscious and monumentally dull.The endless tableaux...yes, the production design is lovely.

The juxtaposition of contemporary music...no, it's not clever (Nights in White Satin! Please!). Obvious and moronic.

And, to cap it all off, Monsieur Bonello...you insult your audience with a modern-day parallel with a shot of hookers on the street...a ridiculousness!


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The(ir) Blurb...

Life in an elegant Parisian brothel in the early twentieth century. 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.

Cast & Characters

Noemie Lvovsky as Marie-France;
Hafsia Herzi as Samira;
Celine Sallette as Clotilde;
Jasmine Trinca as Julie;
Adele Haenel as Lea;
Alice Barnole as Madeleine;
Iliana Zabeth as Pauline;
Pauline Jacquard;
Anais Thomas;
Maia Sandoz