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  • Summary: At the dawn of the twentieth century, in a brothel in Paris, a prostitute's face is scarred and becomes a tragic smile. Life at the brothel is isolated from the outside world and it revolves around the "laughing lady". (Haute et Court Films)

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  1. Slant Magazine
    Reviewed by: Phil Coldiron
    Nov 22, 2011
    100
    A brief history of time and space, according to Bertrand Bonello.
  2. The A.V. Club
    Reviewed by: Scott Tobias
    Nov 22, 2011
    91
    Without soft-pedaling it in the least, Bonello nonetheless mourns the passing of a time where prostitutes didn't control their destinies, but at least had each other.
  3. The New York Times
    Reviewed by: Stephen Holden
    Dec 1, 2011
    60
    Throughout the film there is an abundance of sumptuously photographed flesh on view. But House of Pleasures is not an erotic stimulant so much as a slow-moving, increasingly tragic and claustrophobic operatic pageant set almost entirely in the brothel.

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