House of Pleasures
Alternate/Foreign Title: L'Apollonide (Souvenirs de la maison close) [Original title], House of Tolerance [Alternate title]
DVD Released (Y/M/D): 2012-03-13
Genre: Foreign
Sub-genre: Drama
Director: Bertrand Bonello
Stars: Hafsia Herzi, Céline Sallette, Jasmine Trinca, Adèle Haenel, Alice Barnole, Iliana Zabeth, Noémie Lvovsky, Jacques Nolot, Xavier Beauvois
MPAA Rating: Not Rated
Synopsis: In this lush, atmospheric look at the final days of an elegant, turn-of-the-century brothel, we go inside the cloistered walls of L'Apollonide to meet the Madam (Noemie Lvovsky), her elite clientele, and some dozen "girls" - veterans and newcomers, romantics and cynics, schemers and innocents. Upending the period drama with split screens, time shifts and a modern soundtrack, this is a provocative and beautiful film about the world's oldest profession - and an exploration of how the past is remembered.
  Source: Sundance Selects