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House of Tolerance

Play trailer Poster for House of Tolerance 2011,  2h 2m,  Comedy/ Drama Play Trailer Watchlist
Watchlist 84% 31 Reviews Tomatometer 63% 1,000+ Ratings Popcornmeter
84% Tomatometer 31 Reviews 63% Popcornmeter 1,000+ Ratings
A young woman begins a new life at the Apollonide bordello, a high-class brothel in Paris.
House of Tolerance

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Critics Consensus

An atmospheric study of the world of brothels, House of Tolerance digs beyond the corseted courtesans and lingers like the languid days it depicts.

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Stanley Kauffmann The New Republic Jun 19, 2013
Nothing in this film comes as a surprise, but Bonello's intent to show the place backstage as well as onstage is fulfilled and pertinent, even though the period setting gives the picture a curio air. Go to Full Review
Mick LaSalle San Francisco Chronicle Mar 29, 2012
3/4
It's about forcing us to think about people we never would otherwise and seeing their struggles and humanity. Go to Full Review
Jon Frosch The Atlantic Mar 7, 2012
What gives the film its haunting pull, as well as its feminist undercurrent, is the filmmaker's palpable compassion for these women. Go to Full Review
Brian Eggert Deep Focus Review Jul 30, 2024
4/4
Bonello resists crystallizing his subjects by neither romanticizing nor condemning them, preferring instead to consider their time between work, the textures they inhabit, the joys and humiliations they endure, and, above all, their layers of humanity. Go to Full Review
Diego Batlle Otroscines.com Oct 4, 2022
8/10
Audacious. [Full review in Spanish] Go to Full Review
Ellie Lucas From the Front Row Aug 6, 2019
3.5/4
At once repellant and enthralling,exotic and familiar, but never anything short of fascinating. Go to Full Review
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Abraham R Jan 12, 2018 Depressing story about prostitutes at a French brothel at the turn of the twentith century. The girls do it to be free and independent as one girl says. This isn't that at all. Strange that a few of them even believe that the guys they sleep with for money might still come save them. See more
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Bertrand Bonello

Director

Hafsia Herzi

Samira

Céline Sallette

Clotilde

Jasmine Trinca

Julie

Adèle Haenel

Léa

Alice Barnole

Madeleine

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House of Tolerance

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Movie Info

Synopsis A young woman begins a new life at the Apollonide bordello, a high-class brothel in Paris.
Director
Bertrand Bonello
Producer
Kristina Larsen, Bertrand Bonello
Screenwriter
Bertrand Bonello
Production Co
Les Films du Lendemain, My New Picture, arte France Cinéma
Genre
Comedy, Drama
Original Language
French (France)
Release Date (Streaming)
Mar 22, 2016
Box Office (Gross USA)
$19.3K
Runtime
2h 2m
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