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Criterion collection volume 593
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Séverine, a Paris housewife, begins secretly spending her afternoon hours working in a bordello in an examination of contemporary social mores and class divisions.
3) Madame Rosa
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Winner of the Academy Award for Best Foreign Film, Madame Rosa (1977) is an enduring classic of cross-cultural understanding. Simone Signoret (Diabolique) stars as Madam Rosa, a French-Jewish survivor of the Holocaust who now runs a boarding house in Paris for the children of prostitutes. She takes a liking to Momo, an Algerian boy who she raises in the Muslim faith, a controversial decision in the midst of the Arab-Israeli conflict. But their bond...
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Criterion collection volume 484
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Evokes a sense of impending doom, the daily domestic routine of a middle-aged widow. Her chores include making the beds, cooking dinner for her grown son, and turning the occasional trick. Her life is beginning to break down.
Series
Criterion collection volume 512
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Français
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Follows Nana, a young Parisian who aspires to be an actress, but a downward spiral forces her into prostitution.
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Despite holding a part-time job, college freshman Laura is unable to make ends meet. Desperate for money, she answers an Internet ad from Joe, a 57-year-old man who seeks a female student for 'tender moments.' The pay is 100 euros per hour. She promises herself it will be only this one time. Three days later, Laura meets Joe and her downward spiral begins. By her second customer, however, Laura already wants to stop. Will she be able to?
7) Bastards
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Following his brother-in-law's suicide, sea captain Marco goes AWOL to rescue his estranged sister and teenaged niece from a powerful, wealthy businessman, who just so happens to be his lover's husband. But Marco's attempt at heroism is soon thwarted as he delves further into the hellish world his sister has involved herself in, and the deception from those he trusted most.
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Film Movement volume 2 , film 12
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"Three women: a mother, her daughter, and a prostitute have been living in a hotel in the center of town amid creeping fundamentalism. Goucem, the daughter, has chosen a modern, emancipated life, spending steamy weekends in nightclubs. Fifi, her faithful friend, prostitutes herself under the thumb of a local protector. Papicha, the mother, eats pizzas in front of the television, torn between fear and nostalgia"--Container.
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After losing her virginity, seventeen-year-old budding beauty Isabelle takes up a secret life as a call girl, meeting her older gentlemen clients for erotic hotel room trysts. Throughout, she remains curiously aloof, showing little interest in the encounters themselves or the money she makes.
10) The sex trade
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Looks at the prostitution underworld of Québec, featuring interviews with prostitutes, pimps, johns, police, club owners, and others involved in the trade. Discusses the relationship of prostitution with organized crime and the practice of human trafficking.