The whore

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Movie
German title The whore
Original title Whore
Country of production United States
original language English
Publishing year 1990
length 85 minutes
Age rating FSK 16
Rod
Director Ken Russell
script David Hines ,
Ken Russell,
Deborah Dalton
production Dan Ireland ,
Ronaldo Vasconcellos
music Michael Gibbs
camera Amir M. Mokri
cut Brian Tagg
occupation

The whore (Whore) is an American film drama made in 1990 by Ken Russell , who after a drawing by David Hines along with Deborah Dalton also wrote the screenplay.

action

A street whore in Los Angeles tells anecdotes from her life, which is characterized by exploitation and violence. The film alternates between street scenes showing her depressing experiences with suitors and flashbacks in which episodes from her past trace the path to prostitution. For example, a dinner in a French restaurant with her pimp, whose false sophistication is more embarrassing than her ignorance of the rules of fine dining. Then a reminiscence of her first "business deal", her time as a housewife and dominatrix or the brutal reactions of uncontrolled suitors. Her motto is: "I don't do anything dirty", by which she means certain sexual practices . The only book in her life is Animal Farm by George Orwell . She learns to play Scrabble from a friend; the first thing she puts is the word “dignity”. Your pimp throws the novel into the fire and continues to talk extensively about his social Darwinist worldview. He directs his words directly to the viewer by turning directly to the camera, just as the prostitute does in the street scenes.

She gets to know the black homeless street artist Rasta, who despises her pimp, by whom he has been threatened, and states: "You would have to be legal, then you wouldn't need such people!" Her sarcastic humor helps the prostitute to survive. There is also her six-year-old son who lives with a foster family. In the dramatic final scene Rasta frees her from her violent pimp by cutting his throat with a piece of glass.

Reviews

  • “The film, which describes the milieu in a blatantly realistic way, especially in the rough dialogue , largely avoids voyeuristic perspectives. Remarkable in terms of form due to a masterly linking of picture and sound and the outstanding leading actress. "( Lexicon of international film )
  • "Astonishingly straightforward [...] The film looks cheap in a certain way." ( Vincent Canby : The New York Times )
  • “A disillusioning, surrealistic portrait of prostitution . More hard-hearted than hardcore . Deadly serious on one level, but also quite a fun by its own enigmatic standards. [...] This is the man who gave us 'The Devils', ' The Snake Woman's Bite ', ' Gothic ' and a range of other anti-classics. [...] as a tough actress, Russell is carried through the film by her own personality. Perhaps the deliberately close-by-the-way drama grows with the audience. Or at least he gets used to it. […] Humor interrupts the brutality, and the brutality strikes back again. [...] The sex trade is downright allegorically banal here. [...] It's not even about sex . "( Desson Howe : Washington Post )
  • “Disreputable, yes. Exploitative , pornographic, funny, but safe. But boring? Unthinkable. [...] Most of the time talking about Russell freely away into the camera nasty, you know her from Oprah '-Banalitäten, in a blunt dubbed way bad actresses fresh out of high school, the one on underclass make [...] an intrusive anti - erotic cartoon [...] tumb full of dislike "( Owen Gleiberman : Entertainment Weekly)
  • "Let's run it under 'things you say hmmm ... about ' . [...] Russell performs a rare feat: he manages to be shrill and dreary at the same time. [...] In its entirety, the film is clear - clearly horrific. Anyway , I'll stick with my job. "( Hal Hinson : Washington Post ) - ( File it under" Things that make you go 'hmmmm ...' " )

Others

In 1990 the romantic blockbuster Pretty Woman was launched (and its version, which was further enhanced for the airlines, in which "she only tells him the way" - Roger Ebert ).

World premiere took place in Great Britain on June 21, 1991. The film premiered in the Federal Republic of Germany on July 4, 1991, and was released on video on January 27, 1992.

Edited versions of 92 minutes, 85 ( NC-17 , US theatrical version ), another 85 minutes and one of 77 are in circulation . In the United States it was also released under the more moderate title If you can't say it, see it .

Antonio Fargas is known as the pimp Huggy Bear from the Starsky & Hutch series .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Filmdienst : The Whore. In: Kabeleins Filmlexikon. SevenOne Intermedia GmbH, accessed on March 23, 2009 .
  2. ↑ Vincent Canby : Whore (1991). In: The New York Times . October 4, 1991, accessed on March 23, 2009 (English): "surprisingly plain [...] The movie looks sort of cheap"
  3. ↑ Desson Howe, 'Whore' (NC-17). In: Washington Post . November 8, 1991, accessed on March 23, 2009 : “a deglamorized, surrealistic portrait of prostitution. It's hard-hitting, rather than hard-core. It's deadly serious on one level. Yet, by its own peculiar standards, it's also fun. […] This is the guy who gave you "The Devils," "The Lair of the White Worm," "Gothic" and a host of other in-your-face anti-classics. [...] a tenacious actress, her personality pulls her through. Her just-off-the-mark performance, intentional or not, grows on you. Or maybe you just get used to it. […] Humor interrupts brutality - which then interrupts it back. […] The sex business is almost allegorically banal. [...] It isn't even about sex "
  4. ^ Owen Gleiberman: Whore (1991). In: Entertainment Weekly. October 25, 1991, accessed March 23, 2009 : “Sleazy, yes. Exploitative, pornographic, and fun, almost certainly. But boring? The very thought seems indecent. [...] Much of the time, she speaks directly into the camera, delivering earnest, you've-heard-it-before-on-Oprah banalities in the blaringly overstated style of a bad high school actress trying to be low class. [...] It is, rather, a garishly antierotic cartoon [...] numb with disgust "
  5. ^ A b iF Magazine: Whore (1991). In: efilmcritic.com. February 25, 2001, accessed on March 23, 2009 (English): "never reaches the lunatic heights of CRIMES OF PASSION [...] Russell is just about as glamorous a prostitute as Julia Roberts"
  6. ↑ Lon Ponschock: Whore (1991). In: rec.arts.movies.reviews. 1992, accessed on March 24, 2009 (English, at IMDb ): "essentially a one-actor drama"
  7. ↑ Hal Hinson: 'Whore' (NC-17). In: Washington Post. November 11, 1991, accessed on March 23, 2009 (English): "File it under" Things that make you go 'hmmmm ...' [...] Russell pulls off a rare feat; he manages to be both lurid and tedious at the same time [...] There's little confusion about the film as a whole, though - it's flat-out awful. At any rate, guess I'll hang on to my day job "
  8. ↑ Roger Ebert : Whore. In: rogerebert.suntimes.com. October 18, 1991, accessed March 23, 2009 .
  9. ↑ IMDb , "Release dates", s. Web links.
  10. ↑ IMDb , "Alternate versions", s. Web links.

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