The France-produced, Paris-brothel feature "House Of Pleasures" (aka "L'Apollonide") is directed by Bertrand Bonello, starring Hafsia Herzi, Celine Sallette, Alice Barnole, Adele Haenel, Jasmine Trinca, Iliana Zabeth, and Noemie Lvovsky :
"...At the dawn of the twentieth century, in a brothel in Paris, a disfigured prostitute lives a strange life, surrounded by other girls, their rivalries, fears, joys and sorrows..."
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"...At the dawn of the twentieth century, in a brothel in Paris, a disfigured prostitute lives a strange life, surrounded by other girls, their rivalries, fears, joys and sorrows..."
Click the images to enlarge and Sneak Peek "House Of Pleasures"...
- 11/17/2012
- by M. Stevens
- SneakPeek
House of Tolerance (original French title L’Apollonide: Souvenirs de la maison close, 2011) is set in a Paris brothel during the twilight of 19th century/eve of 20th century. The story focuses entirely on twelve females aged around 16-30 living and working in the brothel as prostitutes. This is not a ‘knocking shop’, as Madame Marie-France (Noémie Lvovsky) is keen to impress, but a respectable establishment where elegant, if sometimes dangerous men go to meet elegant woman bedecked in semi-revealing Belle Époque fashions and fine silk lingerie.
Costume designer for House of Tolerance, Anaïs Romand (César award winner), approached the project with a view that true period authenticity can never be achieved; instead she aimed to “look for authenticity with the girls and the way they would live in their costumes”. Talking exclusively to Clothes on Film, Romand walks us through her visual interpretation of these characters and how she...
Costume designer for House of Tolerance, Anaïs Romand (César award winner), approached the project with a view that true period authenticity can never be achieved; instead she aimed to “look for authenticity with the girls and the way they would live in their costumes”. Talking exclusively to Clothes on Film, Romand walks us through her visual interpretation of these characters and how she...
- 9/7/2012
- by Chris Laverty
- Clothes on Film
Chicago – L’Apollonide, the Parisian brothel in Bertrand Bonello’s “House of Pleasures,” is one of the most vividly realized movie locations in recent memory. The voyeuristic allure of cinema fuses with the film’s painterly imagery to create a subtly surrealistic dreamscape within the establishment’s claustrophobic walls. The picture is seductive and repellant in about equal measure, but never short of hypnotic.
Though “Pleasures” (alternately titled “House of Tolerance”) is clearly the work of a filmmaker influenced by the “male gaze” represented in everything from Monet artwork to early silents, the film is resoundingly successful in its attempts to view life from the perspectives of the female prostitutes. As the young ladies externalize the kinky fantasies of their clients, Bonello allows the viewer to peer into each woman’s own thoughts and dreams, thus illuminating the strong-willed psyche within the submissive façade.
DVD Rating: 4.5/5.0
Consider the character of...
Though “Pleasures” (alternately titled “House of Tolerance”) is clearly the work of a filmmaker influenced by the “male gaze” represented in everything from Monet artwork to early silents, the film is resoundingly successful in its attempts to view life from the perspectives of the female prostitutes. As the young ladies externalize the kinky fantasies of their clients, Bonello allows the viewer to peer into each woman’s own thoughts and dreams, thus illuminating the strong-willed psyche within the submissive façade.
DVD Rating: 4.5/5.0
Consider the character of...
- 3/29/2012
- by adam@hollywoodchicago.com (Adam Fendelman)
- HollywoodChicago.com
Omar Sy, Maïwenn Best Film L'Apollonide – Souvenirs de la maison close / House of Tolerance by Bertrand Bonello * The Artist by Michel Hazanavicius L'Exercice de l'État by Pierre Schoeller Le Havre by Aki Kaurismaki Intouchables / Untouchable by Eric Toledano, Olivier Nakache Best Director Bertrand Bonello for House of Tolerance Michel Hazanavicius for The Artist Aki Kaurismaki for Le Havre * Maiwenn for Polisse Pierre Schoeller for L'Exercice de l'État Best Actress * Bérénice Bejo in The Artist by Michel Hazanavicius Catherine Deneuve, Chiara Mastroianni in Les Bien-Aimés / Beloved by Christophe Honoré Valérie Donzelli in La Guerre est déclarée / Declaration of War by Valérie Donzelli Marina Fois, Karin Viard in Polisse by Maïwenn Clotilde Hesme in Angèle et Tony / Angèle and Tony d'Alix Delaporte Best Actor Jean Dujardin in The Artist by Michel Hazanavicius Olivier Gourmet in L'Exercice de l'État by Pierre Schoeller Joey Starr in Polisse by Maïwenn * Omar Sy in Untouchable d'Eric Toledano,...
- 1/16/2012
- by Steve Montgomery
- Alt Film Guide
Dennis Lim opens his profile of Bertrand Bonello in the New York Times by noting that the filmmaker "has a term for movies that take place in a single setting: brain films. 'I call them that because the location is like your brain,' Mr Bonello said. 'It's like when you go inside a theater or a cinema, and you shut the door: the outside doesn't exist anymore. Very quickly you allow yourself a lot of associations of ideas. You get lost, and you come back, geographically but also mentally.' Think, he said, of The Shining, which evokes claustrophobia within the vastness of an empty snowbound hotel, or Elephant, which circles the endless corridors of a doomed high school. A kindred atmosphere of simultaneous immersion and disorientation defines Mr Bonello's fifth feature, House of Pleasures, which is set almost entirely within a brothel in fin de siècle Paris. A world unto itself,...
- 11/28/2011
- MUBI
IFC Films' dramatic feature "House Of Pleasures", is written and directed by Bertrand Bonello, starring Hafsia Herzi, Céline Sallette, Alice Barnole, Adèle Haenel, Jasmine Trince, Iliana Zabeth and Noémie Lvovsky :
"...'House Of Pleasures' depicts the final days of a turn of the century brothel when much of the Parisian sex trade was confined to 'grand maisons', populated by elegant madams and vetted clientele.
"Within the walls of 'L'Apollonide', we follow the lives of the 'Madam' (Lvovsky) and several girls including 'Madeline' (Barnole), aka 'the woman who laughs', 'Clotilde' (Sallette) the prostitute who longs to be a 'respectable woman' and 'Pauline' (Zabeth), the newcomer whose eyes are quickly opened to reality..."
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"...'House Of Pleasures' depicts the final days of a turn of the century brothel when much of the Parisian sex trade was confined to 'grand maisons', populated by elegant madams and vetted clientele.
"Within the walls of 'L'Apollonide', we follow the lives of the 'Madam' (Lvovsky) and several girls including 'Madeline' (Barnole), aka 'the woman who laughs', 'Clotilde' (Sallette) the prostitute who longs to be a 'respectable woman' and 'Pauline' (Zabeth), the newcomer whose eyes are quickly opened to reality..."
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- 11/7/2011
- by Michael Stevens
- SneakPeek
IFC Films has just released the trailer for Bertrand Bonello's House of Pleasure. The film is currently available on SundanceNOW.com, on VOD November 9th, and in theaters on November 25th.
Here is a description of the film:
The film takes a look at the final days of a turn of the century brothel when much of the Parisian sex trade was confined to grand maisons, populated by elegant madams and vetted clientele (including French filmmakers Jacques Nolot (Before I Forget) and Xavier Beauvois (Of Gods and Men)). Within L'Apollonide's walls, Bonello tracks the lives of the Madam (Noémie Lvovsky) and close to a dozen girls among them: Madeline (Alice Barnole) who is horribly disfigured by a client and becomes known as "the woman who laughs," Clotilde (Céline Sallette) the veteran who longs to be a "respectable woman" and Pauline (Iliana Zabeth), the newcomer whose eyes are quickly opened to reality.
Here is a description of the film:
The film takes a look at the final days of a turn of the century brothel when much of the Parisian sex trade was confined to grand maisons, populated by elegant madams and vetted clientele (including French filmmakers Jacques Nolot (Before I Forget) and Xavier Beauvois (Of Gods and Men)). Within L'Apollonide's walls, Bonello tracks the lives of the Madam (Noémie Lvovsky) and close to a dozen girls among them: Madeline (Alice Barnole) who is horribly disfigured by a client and becomes known as "the woman who laughs," Clotilde (Céline Sallette) the veteran who longs to be a "respectable woman" and Pauline (Iliana Zabeth), the newcomer whose eyes are quickly opened to reality.
- 11/4/2011
- by Tiberius
- GeekTyrant
ComingSoon.net has your first look at the new trailer for Bertrand Bonello's House of Pleasure , which is currently available on SundanceNOW.com, on VOD November 9th, and in theaters on November 25th. For his fifth film, Bonello depicts a highly cinematic and atmospheric look at the final days of a turn of the century brothel when much of the Parisian sex trade was confined to grand maisons, populated by elegant madams and vetted clientele (including French filmmakers Jacques Nolot ( Before I Forget ) and Xavier Beauvois ( Of Gods and Men )). Within L'Apollonide's walls, Bonello tracks the lives of the Madam (Noémie Lvovsky) and close to a dozen girls among them: Madeline (Alice Barnole) who is horribly disfigured by a client and becomes known as "the woman who laughs,"...
- 11/4/2011
- Comingsoon.net
Updated through 5/18.
"[E]veryone I know absolutely despised Bertrand Bonello's House of Tolerance, set in a Parisian brothel ca. 1899-1900, whereas I found myself rather touched by the film's oddly idealized portrait of a defunct community," writes Mike D'Angelo at the Av Club. "Granted, there are risible moments — you can't make a movie in which a hideously disfigured prostitute cries tears of milky semen without inspiring a lot of wisecracks on Twitter. But Bonello's compassion for these women feels genuine, and I appreciated the deft way that he juxtaposed their various assignations with the practical, menial details of their trade, as well as his pointedly anachronistic use of music…. I make no great claims for House of Tolerance, but the degree of intolerance among my colleagues has me befuddled."
Leslie Felperin in Variety: "Although there's heaps of nudity, disturbing violence, weirdness and a general air of bored erotic lassitude, all...
"[E]veryone I know absolutely despised Bertrand Bonello's House of Tolerance, set in a Parisian brothel ca. 1899-1900, whereas I found myself rather touched by the film's oddly idealized portrait of a defunct community," writes Mike D'Angelo at the Av Club. "Granted, there are risible moments — you can't make a movie in which a hideously disfigured prostitute cries tears of milky semen without inspiring a lot of wisecracks on Twitter. But Bonello's compassion for these women feels genuine, and I appreciated the deft way that he juxtaposed their various assignations with the practical, menial details of their trade, as well as his pointedly anachronistic use of music…. I make no great claims for House of Tolerance, but the degree of intolerance among my colleagues has me befuddled."
Leslie Felperin in Variety: "Although there's heaps of nudity, disturbing violence, weirdness and a general air of bored erotic lassitude, all...
- 5/18/2011
- MUBI
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