A journalist tries to balance the duties of marriage and motherhood while researching a piece on college women who work as prostitutes to pay their tuition.
Acting
Binoche's micro-expressions do three hours of therapy's work.
Direction
Szumowska shoots sex work without exploitation or redemption.
Cinematography
Warm interiors that feel increasingly like cages.
Director
Małgorzata Szumowska
Juliette Binoche
Anne
Anaïs Demoustier
Charlotte
Joanna Kulig
Alicja
Louis-Do de Lencquesaing
Patrick
Krystyna Janda
Mutter
Andrzej Chyra
Sadist client
Ali Marhyar
Saïd
François Civil
Florent
Pablo Beugnet
Stéphane
Valérie Dréville
La mère de Charlotte
Jean-Louis Coulloc'h
Le père de Charlotte
Arthur Moncla
Thomas
Scali Delpeyrat
Charles
Laurence Ragon
Colette
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Szumowska researched actual student sex workers in Paris; the flat Anne visits was a real location where women worked.
Released the same year as 'The Girlfriend Experience,' this European counterpoint refuses Soderbergh's glossy aestheticization entirely.
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