House of Pleasures

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You can watch House of Pleasures (2011) on Kanopy with a participating library card.

The dawn of the 20th century: L’Apollonide, a luxurious and traditional brothel in Paris, is living its last days. In this closed world, where some men fall in love and others become viciously harmful, the women share their secrets, their fears, their joys and their pains.

Velvet curtains and dim candlelight shroud a fading Parisian sanctuary where elegance meets an aching sense of inevitability. Within this gilded cage, the quiet intimacy shared between the women provides a haunting contrast to the volatile men who drift through their doors.

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