House of Tolerance (2011) L'Apollonide (Souvenirs de la maison close) (original title)

Director:

Bertrand Bonello

Writer:

Bertrand Bonello (scenario)

Release Date:

25 November 2011 (USA)

Genre:

Drama

Plot:

Life in an elegant Parisian brothel in the early twentieth century. The madam essentially owns the women: their expenses exceed earnings...

Plot Keywords:

Knife | Female Removes Her Dress | Bare Breasts | Voyeurism | Brothel

Awards:

1 win & 8 nominations

Cast

Noémie Lvovsky	...	Marie-France
Hafsia Herzi	...	Samira
Céline Sallette	...	Clotilde
Jasmine Trinca	...	Julie
Adèle Haenel	...	Léa
Alice Barnole	...	Madeleine
Iliana Zabeth	...	Pauline
Pauline Jacquard
Anaïs Thomas
Maia Sandoz		(as Maïa Sandoz)
Joanna Grudzinska
Esther Garrel
Xavier Beauvois
Louis-Do de Lencquesaing
Jacques Nolot
Laurent Lacotte
Pierre Léon
Jean-Baptiste Verquin
Michel Peteau
Marcelo Teles
Guillaume Verdier
Justin Taurand
Damien Odoul
Paul Moulin
Henry Lvovsky
Paolo Mattei
Fred Epaud
François Magal
Ghislain de Fonclare
Daniel Doebbels
André Lamorthe
Chad Gomis
Chloé Rouaud
Louisa Lacroix
Bernard Fonty		(as Docteur Bernard Fonty)
Anaïs Romand
Natalia Tintoré
Audrey Perronier
Marie Seznec
Lou Geille
Vincent Dieutre
William Pesson
Lucie Borleteau
Antonia Buresi
Eva Placzynska		(as Ewa Placzynska)
Rufine Duclos
Jing Wang
Yann Yang Yang
Pascale Ferran	...	(voice)
rest of cast listed alphabetically:
Pascale Ferrand	...	Voix
Judith Lou Levy

Directed by
Bertrand Bonello

Writing credits
Bertrand Bonello		(scenario)

Produced by
Bertrand Bonello	....	producer
Kristina Larsen	....	producer

Original Music by
Bertrand Bonello

Cinematography by
Josée Deshaies

Film Editing by
Fabrice Rouaud

Casting by
Richard Rousseau

Production Design by
Alain Guffroy

Costume Design by
Anaïs Romand

Makeup Department
Fabrice Herbet	....	makeup artist
Milou Sanner	....	hair stylist
Nathalie Tabareau	....	makeup artist
Laure Talazac	....	makeup supervisor
Ferouz Zaafour	....	key hair stylist

Production Management
Christina Crassaris	....	post-production supervisor
Capucine Grelardon	....	assistant unit manager
Sandra Marinier	....	assistant production manager

Second Unit Director or Assistant Director
Elsa Amiel	....	first assistant director
Clément Comet	....	second assistant director
Mathieu Laemlé	....	location assistant director

Art Department
Charlotte Filler	....	assistant decorator
Virginie Le Romain	....	assistant art director
Virginie Le Romain	....	property buyer
Nicolas Romand	....	swing gang
Christine Teulier	....	property master
Catherine Werner Schmit	....	set dresser (as Catherine Werner-Schmidt)

Sound Department
Renaud Bajeux	....	sound trainee
Aude Baudasse	....	sound edit assistant
Jean-Pierre Duret	....	sound recordist
Dominique Eyraud	....	boom operator
Vincent Gregorio	....	sound assistant
Jean-Pierre Laforce	....	sound re-recording mixer
Benjamin Viau	....	foley recordist

Visual Effects by
Béatrice Bauwens	....	visual effects producer
Sophie Denize	....	visual effects producer
Henri Deruer	....	visual effects artist
Cédric Fayolle	....	visual effects supervisor
Sabine Lineres	....	digital compositor
Sergeï Lourié	....	senior digital compositor

Camera and Electrical Department
Loïc Andrieu	....	steadicam operator
Carole Bethuel	....	still photographer
François Gallou	....	electrician
Stéphane Gallou	....	grip
Catherine Georges	....	first assistant camera
Gaston Grandin	....	key grip
Marianne Lamour	....	gaffer
Romain Marcel	....	second assistant camera

Casting Department
Joanna Grudzinska	....	casting associate

Costume and Wardrobe Department
Lorenzo Mancianti	....	key costume props

Editorial Department
David Magalhaes	....	telecine dailies colorist
Guillaume Saignol	....	assistant editor
Elif Uluengin	....	assistant editor

Other crew
Marguerite Blank	....	production administrator
Barbara Canale	....	script supervisor
Thierry Desjours	....	financial manager
Charles-Edouard Renault	....	legal counsel
Marie Sonne-Jensen	....	assistant to producer
Fabrice Touze	....	production administrator

Thanks
Christophe Jeauffroy	....	thanks

Production Companies

• Les Films du Lendemain
• My New Picture
• arte France Cinéma (co-production)
• Arte France (participation)
• Canal+ (participation)
• Ciné+ (participation)
• Centre National de la Cinématographie (CNC) (participation)
• Région Ile-de-France (support)
• Programme MEDIA de la Communauté Européenne (support)
• Soficinéma 6 Développement (in association with)
• Soficinéma 7 (in association with)
• Cinémage 5 (in association with)

Distributors

• At Entertainment (2012) (Japan) (theatrical)
• Haut et Court (2011) (France) (theatrical)
• IFC Films (2011) (Canada) (theatrical)
• NFP Marketing & Distribution (2012) (Germany) (theatrical)
• O'Brother Distribution (2011) (Belgium) (theatrical)
• Shaw Organisation (2012) (Singapore) (theatrical)
• StraDa Films (2012) (Greece) (theatrical)
• Sundance Selects (2011) (USA) (theatrical) (subtitled)
• Atalanta Filmes (2012) (Portugal) (all media)
• CN Entertainment (2012) (Hong Kong) (DVD)
• EuroVideo (2012) (Germany) (DVD)
• Films Distribution (2011) (France) (all media) (Sales Agent)
• Petrini Filmes (2011) (Brazil) (all media)
• Rialto Distribution (2012) (Australia) (all media)
• Rialto Distribution (2012) (New Zealand) (all media)
• Twin Pics (2012) (Netherlands) (DVD)

Also Known As:

"L'Apollonide (Souvenirs de la maison close)" - France (original title)
"House of Pleasures" - USA (DVD title)

Runtime:

122 min

Country:

France

Language:

French

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

1.85 : 1

Sound Mix:

Dolby Digital

Certification:

Ireland:18 | Portugal:M/16 | France:-12 | Netherlands:16 | New Zealand:R18 | Singapore:R21 | South Korea:18 | USA:Not Rated

Company:

Les Films du Lendemain

Trivia:

The casting says "Clotilde" but her name is misspelled (as "Clothilde", rather a common error in France) in the movie when we see the lines of name/debt written by the matron.

Movie Connections:

Featured in "Ebert Presents: At the Movies: Episode #2.24" (2011)

Soundtrack:

Bad Girl Part 1

Naked women can be boring

I wouldn't have believed it, but it's true.

Beautiful naked women parade around the screen for just over two hours. And yet it is just plain tedious.

Nothing happens in this film. It's unrelievedly gloomy, the girls are all depressed, none of them like sex, and the men all want to do bizarre things with them.

We don't learn much about many of the girls.

We learn little or nothing about the legal or social system in which the maison close operated, i.e., what was legal and what was not.

I really do not understand what the point of the film was.

Avoid it.