From the open air theater in the Bois de Boulogne the sex workers Heden, Claudia and Samantha, tell about the woods which is their work place.
Direction
Peuch's invisible hand lets subjects direct themselves.
Cinematography
Golden hour woods as both prison and sanctuary.
Editing
45 minutes feels earned, not truncated.
Director
Lola Peuch
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Bois de Boulogne has hosted sex work since at least 1800s; this film joins a sparse French documentary tradition treating it without moral panic.
All three women play 'themselves' — the French credit 'Elle-même' — a Brechtian distancing that somehow makes their testimony feel more authentic, not less.
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