Elles (2011)
Country: FR/POL/GER
Technical: col/2.35:1 99m
Director: Malgorzata Szumowska
Cast: Juliette Binoche, Anaïs Demoustier, Joanna Kulig, Louis-Do de Lencquesaing
Synopsis:
A journalist for Elles magazine interviews two students about their work as 'escort girls', and finds not only that she is deeply affected by their experiences but also that it affects her sense of her own sexuality.
Review:
Ingeniously constructed along multiple chronologies, the present being essentially that of a single day's preparations for a meal with work colleagues, Szumowska's film slips into the traps and equivocations of other essays on the subject. What we are supposed to take away is (possibly) that these girls get more excitement from their tricks than you might think, that they are addicted to the uncomplicated access to money they represent, that they are more in control of the sex when they are working. And yet not all the encounters justify this interpretation. Meanwhile, the impact on Binoche's character is still harder to quantify, aside from her struggles with the household refrigerator, and the film ultimately leaves us hanging.
Country: FR/POL/GER
Technical: col/2.35:1 99m
Director: Malgorzata Szumowska
Cast: Juliette Binoche, Anaïs Demoustier, Joanna Kulig, Louis-Do de Lencquesaing
Synopsis:
A journalist for Elles magazine interviews two students about their work as 'escort girls', and finds not only that she is deeply affected by their experiences but also that it affects her sense of her own sexuality.
Review:
Ingeniously constructed along multiple chronologies, the present being essentially that of a single day's preparations for a meal with work colleagues, Szumowska's film slips into the traps and equivocations of other essays on the subject. What we are supposed to take away is (possibly) that these girls get more excitement from their tricks than you might think, that they are addicted to the uncomplicated access to money they represent, that they are more in control of the sex when they are working. And yet not all the encounters justify this interpretation. Meanwhile, the impact on Binoche's character is still harder to quantify, aside from her struggles with the household refrigerator, and the film ultimately leaves us hanging.
Country: FR/POL/GER
Technical: col/2.35:1 99m
Director: Malgorzata Szumowska
Cast: Juliette Binoche, Anaïs Demoustier, Joanna Kulig, Louis-Do de Lencquesaing
Synopsis:
A journalist for Elles magazine interviews two students about their work as 'escort girls', and finds not only that she is deeply affected by their experiences but also that it affects her sense of her own sexuality.
Review:
Ingeniously constructed along multiple chronologies, the present being essentially that of a single day's preparations for a meal with work colleagues, Szumowska's film slips into the traps and equivocations of other essays on the subject. What we are supposed to take away is (possibly) that these girls get more excitement from their tricks than you might think, that they are addicted to the uncomplicated access to money they represent, that they are more in control of the sex when they are working. And yet not all the encounters justify this interpretation. Meanwhile, the impact on Binoche's character is still harder to quantify, aside from her struggles with the household refrigerator, and the film ultimately leaves us hanging.