In Luis Buñuel’s “Belle de Jour,” a housewife slips out during the day to an elite brothel, where she’s able to explore kinky fantasies she wouldn’t dare suggest to her husband. It’s one of the most daring films ever made, not so much because of anything it overtly depicts as what this controversial classic reveals about the infinitely complicated psychology of human sexuality.
Director Josephine Mackerras’ “Alice” shares that rebel spirit, thrusting its demure leading lady into some of those same shadows. But unlike Catherine Deneuve’s masochistic character, young married mother Alice Ferrand isn’t trying to feed any particular fetish when she starts work for a high-class Paris brothel. Rather, she discovers this hidden world quite by accident the day her credit cards stop working, after calling phone numbers she finds among her husband’s private records. She agrees to become an escort since...
Director Josephine Mackerras’ “Alice” shares that rebel spirit, thrusting its demure leading lady into some of those same shadows. But unlike Catherine Deneuve’s masochistic character, young married mother Alice Ferrand isn’t trying to feed any particular fetish when she starts work for a high-class Paris brothel. Rather, she discovers this hidden world quite by accident the day her credit cards stop working, after calling phone numbers she finds among her husband’s private records. She agrees to become an escort since...
- 5/15/2020
- by Peter Debruge
- Variety Film + TV
It makes no sense. The night before saw Alice Ferrand’s (Emilie Piponnier) husband François (Martin Swabey) going out of his way to passionately make-out with her in front of their friends at a dinner party and now he won’t answer her calls. Despite his running out of the house earlier than usual without any explanation, however, there’s nothing to make her think something is wrong until a trip to the drugstore exposes a freeze on their finances. One credit card won’t work. Then another. The Atm won’t accept her sign-in and François still isn’t picking up his phone. Alice has no other option but to set a meeting with the bank and figure out what’s happening on her own. It’s there that she learns the money is gone.
She can’t even begin to jump to conclusions thanks to being the consummate housewife always saying,...
She can’t even begin to jump to conclusions thanks to being the consummate housewife always saying,...
- 5/14/2020
- by Jared Mobarak
- The Film Stage
Start: 10/08/2010 Start: 10/08/2010
The Brigadoon section of the Sitges film fest in Spain, a wide selection of international feature films, will screen the new independent Autralian slasher Slaughtered by Kate Glover.
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The film will screen on Oct 8th, 2010.
A serial killer is prepared to finish off the customers of remote Australian club. Jamie, the club’s waitress, has to figure out how to survive through the entire night…
The film stars, Chloe Boreham, Cassandra Swaby, Michael Lewis, Chris Tomkinson, Steven O'Donnell, James Kerley, and Erica Baron, and is Glover's first film.
The Brigadoon section of the Sitges film fest in Spain, a wide selection of international feature films, will screen the new independent Autralian slasher Slaughtered by Kate Glover.
Check it out
The film will screen on Oct 8th, 2010.
A serial killer is prepared to finish off the customers of remote Australian club. Jamie, the club’s waitress, has to figure out how to survive through the entire night…
The film stars, Chloe Boreham, Cassandra Swaby, Michael Lewis, Chris Tomkinson, Steven O'Donnell, James Kerley, and Erica Baron, and is Glover's first film.
- 9/27/2010
- by Superheidi
- Planet Fury
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