House of sin
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| German title | House of sin |
| Original title | L'Apollonide (Souvenirs de la maison close) |
| Country of production | France |
| original language | French |
| Publishing year | 2011 |
| length | 122 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 16 |
| Rod | |
| Director | Bertrand Bonello |
| script | Bertrand Bonello |
| production | Bertrand Bonello Kristina Larsen |
| music | Bertrand Bonello |
| camera | Josée Deshaies |
| cut | Fabrice Rouaud |
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House of Sin (Original title: L'Apollonide (Souvenirs de la maison close) ) is a 2011 French drama film directed by Bertrand Bonello . The film started on April 19, 2012 in Germany. It screened in competition at the 2011 Cannes International Film Festival . The German version was created by TV + Synchron .
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Already in the first frames the film gets to the core of its plot, to the moment when one of her suitors, François, is mutilating the prostitute Madeleine with a knife. The anticipation is still veiled when the perpetrator appears behind a mask in a dream that Madeleine confidently reports to her client shortly afterwards. But only a few scenes later the encounter becomes real, the brutal event takes its course, and from this moment on Madeleine will no longer be able to free herself from it, terrible and visionary it runs through the entire film, viewer, in her feverishly presented memories and no longer releasing victims.
We are in the "Apollonide", a noble brothel in Paris in 1900, in which the suitors come and go, while the whores are doomed to stay without a chance. The operator of the brothel, whose children happily live between hookers and suitors, watches over them, the rules of the game and the finances, which are not in good shape. The noble house is threatened with the imminent closure due to merciless rent increases, which is why Madame turns to the Prefect of Paris for help in a letter.
The house also knows other guests: One of the suitors brings a black panther with him, to which the camera will pan back and forth over and over again in the course of the film. Only at the very end of the film, however, does this animal take on the only hinted key role in the revenge for what happened to Madeleine.
For the time being, however, life in Apollonide runs in an orderly manner. The whores keep company with their suitors, indulge in games, lay oracles, let glasses sound melodious by rubbing, bathe in high spirits in a pond, advise each other on important activities in the intimate area and cuddle together lovingly in spacious beds.
And their number is on the rise: 15-year-old Pauline announced herself to the House of Joy by means of a letter in which she praised her merits. It will later be she who leaves the house almost symbolically before its final demise. The next time she introduced her, the manager of the house asks her if she would ever get married and adds that no prostitute ever has a chance of being really saved into a bourgeois life by one of her clients. Pauline, on the other hand, emphasizes that she is concerned with her personal freedom. In this way, the film builds a bridge to Madeleine's dream at the beginning, her vision of the young man who sought her out, and with whom the dream had promised her a love affair, but which was replaced by brutal mutilation.
While the women let the newly arrived Pauline in on the secrets of the business, Clotilde gives in to the opium and the suitors make big bows around Madeleine, who is still living in the brothel, whose face has meanwhile been disfigured by the suitor's knife. Only a man named Jaques shows interest in her and kidnaps her to a burlesque, irrational party, where she becomes the gawked object of cruel, lustful and short people for hours.
But the newly arrived Pauline also has disturbing experiences with a suitor who wants to bathe with her in a tub full of champagne, while someone else forces her into the role of a geisha. Her companion Léa is also at the service of another suitor by miming a lifeless, only mechanically moving doll that is raped by the man while her gaze lingers fixed on a beetle on the ceiling.
But the pleasurable interactions do not leave the suitors' feelings unaffected, some of them fall in love with the whores and give them hope for a future together. And then again it is in the hands of the women to send a bundle of pubic hair to a suitor they no longer want to see that he is no longer wanted.
While Pauline is reading the prefect's letter, in which he informs the madame that he cannot help her, and then takes her leave of the cathouse, Julie is diagnosed with syphilis. Maurice, her admirer, then turns away from her; Julie dies, leaving behind a dance of mournfully dancing friends in the Apollonide salon.
Shortly before its final dissolution, the joy house once again pours itself into the splendor of a masked ball on the national holiday (July 14th): fireworks are pounding outside, Madeleine has a lover again, and François suddenly finds himself in a room with his judge ...
Reviews
“Bonello's film has no moral goal, not even a narrative one. He draws his strange beauty from the presence he gives to the everyday life of the whores. [...] In a hypnotic scene, they dance to Nights in White Satin, lost in their hearts . It is a great moment in which the cinema image succeeds in giving the characters the freedom that denies them their reality. "
“It is not entirely clear what Bonello is trying to say. His look through the keyhole does not bring any new knowledge, the onset of bloody violence, which runs through the film like a guide in the constantly repeating images of a knife-sharpening customer and is intended to prove the contempt of men, seems strangely out of place. "
"An opulent painting of morals as a swan song for the Belle Epoque, which, with the metro building, indicates the modernization of the metropolis and, with the cinema, a new path towards the ideal economy."
Awards
- Best costumes - Anaïs Romand
- Nomination for Best Supporting Actress - Noémie Lvovsky
- Nomination for the best young actress - Adèle Haenel
- Nomination for the best young actress - Celine Sallette
- Nomination for Best Cinematography - Josée Deshaies
- Nomination for best film music - Bertrand Bonello
- Nomination for Best Sound - Jean-Pierre Duret, Nicolas Moreau and Jean-Pierre Laforce
- Nomination for Best Production Design - Alain Guffroy
German production
The German version was produced by TV + Synchron Berlin.
Web links
- House of Tolerance in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Official website (German)
Individual evidence
- ^ Certificate of Release for House of Sin . Voluntary self-regulation of the film industry , April 2012 (PDF; test number: 132 567 K).
- ↑ The end of Anke Leweke's party online on April 19, 2012, accessed on April 23, 2012.
- ^ "House of Sin": View through the keyhole from April 19, 2012 on abendblatt.de , accessed on April 23, 2012.
- ↑ House of Sin. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed March 2, 2017 .
- ↑ House of Sin. In: synchronkartei.de. German dubbing file , accessed on March 2, 2017 .