Cast member Celine Sallette jumps as she takes part with other cast members to a photocall for the film "L'Apollonide", by director Bertrand Bonello, in competition at the 64th Cannes Film Festival, ...

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, ...

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.

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 ...

In this deliciously decadent period drama, a madam (Noemie Lvovsky) presides over an elegant, early-20th-century brothel, which houses nearly a dozen prostitutes whose lives are profoundly altered by ...

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A young woman begins a new life at the Apollonide bordello, a high-class brothel in Paris.

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At the turn of the 18th to the 19th century, 16-year-old seamstress Pauline starts working in a Parisian brothel. Fortunately, it's an exclusive establishment where the girls are treated well. But ...

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, ...