The read
Scores higher than 80% of the 7,176 2010s drama movies in this catalog.
Synopsis
The dawn of the 20th century: L’Apollonide, a luxurious and traditional brothel in Paris, is living its last days. In this closed world, where some men fall in love and others become viciously harmful, the women share their secrets, their fears, their joys and their pains.
Ratings
IMDb6.7/10
Rotten Tomatoes84%
Metacritic75/100
289 audience votes
Key crew
- Bertrand BonelloDirector
- Bertrand BonelloWriter
- Bertrand BonelloOriginal Music Composer
Cast
- Noémie LvovskyMarie-France
- Hafsia HerziSamira
- Céline SalletteClotilde
- Jasmine TrincaJulie
- Adèle HaenelLéa
- Alice BarnoleMadeleine
- Iliana ZabethPauline
- Judith Lou LévyProstitute
- Pauline JacquardProstitute
- Anaïs ThomasProstitute
- Maïa SandozProstitute
- Joanna GrudzinskaProstitute
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Themes
paris, francebrotheleroticismsexual fantasysexual humiliationprostitutionsexual desiresexual favorsexual explorationsexual experimentationsexual relationshipsexual attitudes