On her latest assignment, a journalist for Elle immerses herself in a prostitution ring run by university students.
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Malgorzata Szumowska (as Malgoska Szumowska)
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Cast
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| Juliette Binoche | ... | Anne | |
| Anaïs Demoustier | ... | Charlotte | |
| Joanna Kulig | ... | Alicja | |
| Louis-Do de Lencquesaing | ... | Patrick | |
| Krystyna Janda | ... | La mère d'Alicja | |
| Andrzej Chyra | ... | Le client sadique | |
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Ali Marhyar | ... | Saïd |
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Jean-Marie Binoche | ... | Le père d'Anne |
| François Civil | ... | Florent | |
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Pablo Beugnet | ... | Stéphane |
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Valérie Dréville | ... | La mère de Charlotte |
| Jean-Louis Coulloc'h | ... | Le père de Charlotte | |
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Arthur Moncla | ... | Thomas |
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Scali Delpeyrat | ... | Charles |
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Laurence Ragon | ... | Colette |
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Anne (Juliette Binoche), a well-off, Paris-based mother of two and investigative journalist for ELLE, is writing an article about student prostitution. Her meetings with two fiercely independent young women, Alicja (Joanna Kulig) and Charlotte (Anais Demoustier), are profound and unsettling, moving her to question her most intimate convictions about money, family and sex. Written by Tine Byrckel
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sex | see through panties | female masturbation | sex with an older man | fellatio |Taglines:
The world's oldest profession still has its secrets.Genres:
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Symphony No. 7 in A major, Op. 92 - II. AllegrettoWritten by Ludwig van Beethoven
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1 February 2012 (France) See more »Also Known As:
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Budget:
EUR4,000,000 (estimated)Opening Weekend USA:
$24,286, 29 April 2012Gross USA:
$157,508Cumulative Worldwide Gross:
$3,822,241Company Credits
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According to some reports, great many female students in France financed their studies from prostitution. This film starts from this report. Juliette Binoche plays the journalist who interviews two of these girls. Many times.
She tries to analyze it all from a cold professional view, but finds that she is the one who changes and maybe also gets analyzed. The girls tell her they are abused sometimes, but Binoche is the one who takes the biggest injuries.
Interesting film about "Western morals" declining more and more in all ways, since we're not interesting in sharing profits like we used to. But the film is a little cold and and analyzing, just like a professional journalist should be.