2013
A young girl decides to become a prostitute in Paris after a summer fling, however once a client dies during sex she gets outed.
I went to see this in the cinema with a friend, and I was not impressed. Despite a generally pretty aesthetic, a story line that ran without a hitch and a concise script that never overstated anything, but neither did it leave us guessing, I found the film hard to enjoy.
My first problem is that despite being a film with a female main character, we hardly saw her opinions or understood her actions. It felt to me that that the film was more sympathetic to her clients and thought more about their opinions than hers. The interactions with her mother met the same problem. The main character was 2D with her motives for becoming a prostitute never fully explained.
Because of this, the film felt almost pornographic. We were watching this underage girl be a prostitute, with little exploration of her own feelings. It was an exploitative experience.
The final straw with me was that the film started to suggest at the end that every girl secretly wants to be a prostitute with a little encounter with the dead clients wife. I am not someone who needs morals in every film, but the main character appears to be hardly effected by her experience. She talks to a psychiatrist a bit and has a moment of distrust in the family, but mainly there seem to be no effects on her. In fact the experience is almost shown as positive.
All in all this felt like a sleazy film about a mans fantasy of what women are like. It is not exactly on my watch again list.
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