French pornography film producer Marc Dorcel arrives on the red carpet before the screening of the film "L'Apollonide", by director Bertrand Bonello (6th L) in competition at the 64th Cannes Film ...

Rollo Tomasi is a Connecticut-based film critic, TV show critic, news, and editorial writer. He will have a MFA in Creative Writing from Columbia University in 2026. Rollo has written over 700 film, ...

Aki Kaurismäki proves himself a master of deadpan, while André Téchiné turns in a spectacular belly-flop of a film Some wonderful, big-hearted comedy was provided at the beginning of Cannes's second ...

The lives of Paris brothel workers are anything but sexy in Bertrand Bonello's period piece. By THR Staff CANNES — Both an elegiac salute to the demise of Paris’s fin-de-siècle brothels and a poetic ...

Despite their strict boss, who pockets most of the earnings, the girls get along very well. One girl with a special status is the disfigured Madeleine (Alice Barnole), whose face was slashed by a ...

Madeline (Alice Barnole), the tragic figure at the heart of Bertrand Bonello’s somber, hypnotic film “House of Pleasures,” is a prostitute known as “the woman who laughs” at L’Apollonide, an elegant ...

film profile] (Directors’ Fortnight 2008) and The Pornographer (FIPRESCI Prize in Cannes Critics’ Week in 2001) is this time immersing himself in the daily life of a brothel in the early 20th century.

This claustrophobic picture (aka L'Apollonide – Souvenirs de la maison close) is a frank, unexploitative account of life in a smart Parisian brothel in 1899 and 1900. It demonstrates that la belle ...

Director Bertrand Bonello attends a news conference for the film "L'Apollonide", in competition at the 64th Cannes Film Festival, May 16, 2011.[Photo/Agencies] ...

Rollo Tomasi is a Connecticut-based film critic, TV show critic, news, and editorial writer. He will have a MFA in Creative Writing from Columbia University in 2025. Rollo has written over 700 film, ...