Two young women find themselves struggling to survive in Paris, street-wise Nathalie, a stripper, and naïve Sandrine, a barmaid. Together, they discover that sex can be used to their advantage, and pleasure.
Direction
Brisseau's unflinching gaze turns exploitation into uncomfortable art
Acting
Revel and Seyvecou's terrifying chemistry of need and calculation
Director
Jean-Claude Brisseau
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Part of the 'New French Extremity' movement alongside Baise-moi and Irreversible—films that used transgressive content to interrogate French bourgeois values.
Brisseau was later convicted of casting couch abuses; knowing this reframes the film's 'women using sex for power' narrative into something far more uncomfortable about who actually controlled the camera.
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