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21 April 2012 4:08 PM, PDT | The Guardian - Film News | See recent The Guardian - Film News news »

This smug Franco-Polish co-production stars Juliette Binoche at her most self-regarding as a lazy journalist researching an article for Elle on teenagers subsidising their higher education through prostitution. Naturally her troubled, comfortable middle-class existence is oppressive, and she's developed a giggly, huggy-feely relationship with two prostitutes, one Polish, the other French working-class. Through them she rediscovers the familiar feminist cliche that prostitution is a sexual transaction identical with, and possibly more honest than, marriage. Hasn't she seen Visconti's episode of Boccaccio '70, Buñuel's Belle de jour or Godard's Deux ou trois choses que je sais d'elle? One girl's graphic testimony includes a married client urinating all over her before serenading her with Prévert's "Autumn Leaves". Wouldn't "Raindrops Keep Fallin' on My Head" have been more appropriate?

DramaWorld cinemaJuliette BinocheLuis BuñuelJean-Luc GodardPhilip French

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