Tag Archives: feminist films
Another film with pretty young whores…
IFC recently released another sex worker film (making two out of their three current releases about sex workers – the other is Sleeping Beauty),by director Bertrand Bonello (Tiresia, On War, The Pornographer). Clearly a pretty film but not without issues. … Continue reading
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Sleeping Beauty is a Ho…
A new take on an old fairy tale makes “sleeping beauty” a sex worker who actually has sex or something like sex with clients who pay to molest her while she slumbers. Written and directed by Australian writer Julia Leigh, … Continue reading
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Sophia Loren Queen of Sin-ematic Sex Workers
Been sick for a few days so what better excuse to watch great movies with great sex worker heroines. Now that I’ve watched Vittorio De Sica’s Marriage Italian Style and Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow – I’m going to have to … Continue reading
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Fifteen Best Celluloid Sex Workers
1. Sadie Thompson(1928) – w/Gloria Swanson – This silent film, based on the short story, “Rain”, by W. Somerset Maugham, is classic “fallen woman” fare. Sadie travels to Pago Pago to reinvent herself but once there finds a manic missionary … Continue reading
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