Directed by:
Bertrand BonelloScreenplay:
Bertrand BonelloCinematography:
Josée DeshaiesComposer:
Bertrand BonelloCast:
Adèle Haenel, Jasmine Trinca, Hafsia Herzi, Noémie Lvovsky, Céline Sallette, Pierre Léon, Lucie Borleteau, Frédéric Epaud, Guillaume Verdier, Laurent Lacotte (more)Plots(1)
The genesis of the project was a merge of two film ideas Bertrand Bonello had been thinking of. About ten years earlier he had tried to make a film about modern brothels, but the project had been cancelled. After finishing De la guerre from 2008, Bonello decided that he wanted his next film to be about dynamics within a group of females, and his partner suggested a film about prostitutes in a historical setting. The director then became interested in the aspect of a brothel as a closed world from the viewpoint of the prostitutes. The idea of a scar in the form of a smile came from the film The Man Who Laughs, an adaptation of Victor Hugo's novel with the same name. Bonello says he dreamed about the film two nights in a row while he was writing House of Tolerance, and decided to include a female character with such a scar. (official distributor synopsis)
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