ELLES
synopsis
The story of Anne, a wife, mother and journalist currently researching an article about student prostitution for the French edition of ELLE magazine. Anne finds herself drawn to two young women: a down-on-her-luck Polish student and a French girl who comes from one of Paris’ many anonymous housing projects. Both women have entered the sex trade for different reasons, and as they open up to Anne, we are allowed glimpses of the reality of their work. Meanwhile, Anne is forced to confront the bourgeois reality of her own life, where her husband seems married to his cellphone and her son to his PlayStation.
international title: | Elles |
original title: | Elles |
country: | France, Poland, Germany |
sales agent: | Memento International |
year: | 2011 |
genre: | fiction |
directed by: | Małgorzata Szumowska |
film run: | 96' |
release date: | FR 01/02/2012, PL 17/02/2012, HU 01/03/2012, SE 16/03/2012, DE 29/03/2012, BE 18/04/2012, IE 20/04/2012, UK 20/04/2012, GR 26/04/2012, NL 10/05/2012, ES 22/06/2012, IT 14/09/2012, PT 11/10/2012 |
screenplay: | Tine Byrckel, Małgorzata Szumowska |
cast: | Juliette Binoche, Joanna Kulig, Anaïs Demoustier, François Civil |
cinematography by: | Michał Englert |
film editing: | Françoise Tourmen |
art director: | Pauline Bourdon |
costumes designer: | Katarzyna Lewińska |
producer: | Marianne Slot |
production: | Slot Machine, Zentropa International Poland, Zentropa International Koln |
distributor: | Haut et Court, Imagine, Zorro Film, Kino Świat, Curzon Artificial Eye, September Film Distribution Netherlands, Golem Distribución, Thimfilm GmbH, Camera Film, Folkets Bio, Frenetic Films, Officine UBU, Videorama, Alambique |