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House of Tolerance

Original title: L'Apollonide (Souvenirs de la maison close)
  • 20112011
  • Not RatedNot Rated
  • 2h 2m
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6.7/10
7.2K
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House of Tolerance (2011)
Drama
At an elegant Parisian bordello at the dawn of the 20th century exists a cloistered world of pleasure, pain, hope, rivalries--and, most of all, slavery.At an elegant Parisian bordello at the dawn of the 20th century exists a cloistered world of pleasure, pain, hope, rivalries--and, most of all, slavery.At an elegant Parisian bordello at the dawn of the 20th century exists a cloistered world of pleasure, pain, hope, rivalries--and, most of all, slavery.
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7.2K
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    • Bertrand Bonello
    • Bertrand Bonello(scenario)
  • Stars
    • Noémie Lvovsky
    • Hafsia Herzi
    • Céline Sallette
    • Bertrand Bonello
    • Bertrand Bonello(scenario)
  • Stars
    • Noémie Lvovsky
    • Hafsia Herzi
    • Céline Sallette
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    • 31User reviews
    • 105Critic reviews
    • 75Metascore
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    Bertrand Bonello in House of Tolerance (2011)
    Jasmine Trinca, Adèle Haenel, and Hafsia Herzi in House of Tolerance (2011)
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    Noémie Lvovsky
    Noémie Lvovsky
    • Marie-France
    Hafsia Herzi
    Hafsia Herzi
    • Samira
    Céline Sallette
    Céline Sallette
    • Clotilde
    Jasmine Trinca
    Jasmine Trinca
    • Julie
    Adèle Haenel
    Adèle Haenel
    • Léa
    Alice Barnole
    Alice Barnole
    • Madeleine
    Iliana Zabeth
    Iliana Zabeth
    • Pauline
    Pauline Jacquard
    Pauline Jacquard
    Judith Lou Lévy
    Judith Lou Lévy
      Anaïs Thomas
      Anaïs Thomas
      Maia Sandoz
      Maia Sandoz
        Joanna Grudzinska
        Esther Garrel
        Esther Garrel
        • A prostitute
        Xavier Beauvois
        Xavier Beauvois
        • Jacques
        Louis-Do de Lencquesaing
        Louis-Do de Lencquesaing
        • Michaux
        Jacques Nolot
        Jacques Nolot
        • Maurice
        Laurent Lacotte
        Pierre Léon
          • Bertrand Bonello
          • Bertrand Bonello(scenario)
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        • Trivia
          There's a short epilogue at the end with a view of modern Paris streets, traffic and some streetwalkers, one of whom is a 'twin' to a brothel prostitute. Bertrand Bonello said that Thierry Frémaux, the artistic director of the Cannes Film Festival, asked him to cut it, though the film still made it into the main competition after Bonello refused. "A lot of people thought I was glorifying the brothels of the time, holding them up as an ideal against today's prostitution, but it was actually much simpler than that. I felt I couldn't end inside the brothel but needed a contrast. I wanted to burst this bubble I had created for two hours, to wake the viewer up, and that wake-up is the return to the present", Bonello said.
        • Goofs
          A character says he's been to the inauguration ceremony of the Paris Metro. After that there is a scene where we hear fireworks for Bastille Day (14 July). The opening of the Paris Metro (Line 1) was on 19 July 1900, five days after Bastille Day.
        • Crazy credits
          Dedication before end credits:  "For Charlotte"
        • Connections
          Featured in Ebert Presents: At the Movies: Episode #2.23 (2011)
        • Soundtracks
          Bad Girl Part 1
          (1967)

          Written by 'Lee Moses'

          Performed by 'Lee Moses'

          Courtesy of Musicor Records

          (Used in trailer)

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        8/10
        Serious and complex film
        This is a serious and complex film. It takes the audience out of their comfort zone. Not everyone will understand the film. The film is about women that may have no other choice but to sell their bodies, about freaks that buy their bodies, about these women's inability to pay off their so called "debt", about cruelty, about general stigma that surrounds these women. All of the women in the story's brothel are regular girls that have no one to turn to for help, but possibly each other. The reference to the pseudo "study" that one idiot sites in the film, the choice of music, the way the film ends - all help to make the audience think about the film and its story not as something from the past, but as issues that continue on and the reasons (society maybe) behind these issues.
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        • Release date
          • November 25, 2011 (United States)
          • France
          • French
        • Also known as
          • Paris, France
        • Production companies
          • Les Films du Lendemain
          • My New Picture
          • Arte France Cinéma
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        • 2 hours 2 minutes
          • Color
          • Dolby Digital

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