Highlights

Working Girls

Filles de joie

Swiss Premiere

Frédéric Fonteyne, Anne Paulicevich / Belgium, France / 2020 / 90 min / Drama
French / Subtitles English

In the presence of:

- Sara Forestier and Annabelle Lengronne the 11 November 2020 - 21:00

Axelle, Dominique and Conso change every day as they cross the border. They become Athena, Circe, Hera. “Working” girls. Sara Forestier, Noémie Lvovsky and Annabelle Lengronne dance on the tightrope in this accurate and disturbing evocation of brothels in 2020.

The film is a joint endeavor. He directs, she writes the script. Dodo la Saumure opened the doors of his brothels to them, enabling them to address a taboo subject: sex work. Born in a time of austerity measures that hit single mothers hard, this movie questions the place of women in our society. How does one live clandestinely? How does one keep one’s head high? A portrait of female fighters.

Direction

Frédéric Fonteyne, Anne Paulicevich

Screenplay

Anne Paulicevich

Image

Juliette Van Dormael

Editing

Chantal Hymans

Sound

Xavier Griette, Marc Bastien, Thomas Gauder

Music

Vincent Cahay

Production

Versus Production (Jacques-Henri Bronckart)

Co-production

Les Films Du Poisson (Yaël Fogiel), Prime Time (Antonino Lombardo)

With

Sara Forestier, Noémie Lvovsky, Annabelle Lengronne, Nicolas Cazalé, Sergi Lopez, Jonas Bloquet

International sales

Be For Films (Lisa De Rooster)

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