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- Directed by:
- Malgoska SZUMOWSKA
- Country:
- FRANCE, POLOGNE
- Duration:
- 100.00 minutes
Specifications
- Locations and shooting dates: octobre / October 2009 - Paris
- Shooting language POLISH
- Working budget € 3.2 M
- Acquired financing € 0.64 million
Credits
- Malgoska SZUMOWSKA - Director
- Tine BYRCKEL - Script Writer
- Malgoska SZUMOWSKA - Script Writer
Synopsis
Raw, strange sex scenes rush together. Anne, a Parisian journalist, plays back her recorder. Leading a pleasant life and juggling family, work and leisure, she is investigating student prostitution. She meets Alicja, a Polish student whose persona is a troubling and seductive mélange of ambition, sensitivity and impulse, and Charlotte, a French woman, more reserved and viewing her prostitution as part of a bitter social struggle. Having "clients" allows the two women to continue their studies, juggling exams, competitions, bills, the struggle to find housing and the social pressure to lead a life like those of better-off students. Their daily lives are punctuated by paid sexual acts, far from any outside regard. Encounters which are often less sinister and more pleasurable than the two women would imagine, but which by nature lead to the loss of all innocence. Anne is sensitive to the students’ social realities, but little by little their stories touch her more profoundly, leading her to question her own assumptions and sexuality.
Statement
Some women prostitute themselves to earn a living during their studies.
We met some of them. In this film, the journalist and the audience discover "sponsored" or "escort" girls. With a feeling of revulsion at the sight of this social necessity, yet accompanied by a kind fascination and attraction, we find ourselves the voyeurs of a disturbing intimacy, witnesses to a boundless material frenzy to obtain the things most of us want. Either we’re at the right height on the social ladder, or we’ll do anything to get there, and the body then becomes just another object. With this film, we want to show the troubling complexity of these desires for social status, money and sex.
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