The bought woman
Movie | |
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German title | The Bought Woman (also The Broken Mirror ) |
Original title | Broken mirror |
Country of production | Netherlands |
original language | Dutch |
Publishing year | 1984 |
length | 112 minutes |
Age rating | FSK 16 |
Rod | |
Director | Marleen Gorris |
script | Marleen Gorris |
production | Matthijs van Heijningen |
music |
Georges Bossaers Lodewijk de Boer |
camera | Frans Bromet |
cut | Hans van Dongen |
occupation | |
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The Bought Woman is a 1984 movie by Dutch director Marleen Gorris .
action
The film describes in an oppressive way the life of prostitutes in the brothel Happy House in Amsterdam . The director Marleen Gorris shows everyday brothel life for women - joys and sorrows shared as friends and rivals. The second storyline shows the kidnapping and brutally degrading treatment of a woman, which ends with her murder. The perpetrator is a - welcome - visitor to the brothel until the women expose him.
Reviews
- Lexicon of international film : Less interested in individual fates than in depicting everyday violence against women, the film precisely captures an inhuman milieu; the director deliberately stages it in a strikingly trivial way, without speculatively exploiting the "revelations" and tries to achieve a great deal of shock and dismay.
- In its March 4, 1987 edition, the New York Times particularly praised the acting. The reviewer, Vincent Canby , assumes that the director assumes that the kidnapping and murder of women and the prostitution of women are in principle the same, only different in degree. However, he considers this assumption about the oldest trade to be wrong.
Web links
- The purchased woman in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- The bought woman in the OFDb
Individual evidence
- ↑ The Bought Woman. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed March 2, 2017 .
- ↑ New York Times on The Bought Woman ( Memento of the original from January 10, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.