Silt: Adèle Haenel

Nocturama

Some young folks, tired of the society they’re living in, plan a bomb attack over Paris before to take shelter for a night in a shopping center. The new film by Bertrand Bonello (Saint Laurent, House of Pleasures) is a

L’Apollonide (Souvenirs de la maison close)

Life in an elegant Parisian brothel in the early twentieth century. The madam essentially owns the women: their expenses exceed earnings, they are in debt. They face problems of pregnancy, opium, age, and violent clients. One reads sociology at her

Naissance des pieuvres

Three girls, each about 15, deal with puberty, the onset of sexual attraction, and, for two, the pressure of virginity. Marie, who’s slight and diffident, quiet and nearly expressionless, is friends with Anne, who’s a bit chunky and impulsive and

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