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  • 2012
  • Not Rated
  • Kino Lorber
  • 1 h 50 m
  • 2012
  • Not Rated
  • Kino Lorber
  • 1 h 50 m
Whores' Glory

Summary Whores' Glory is an explicit and unflinching exposé of global prostitution. In Bangkok, Thailand, women punch a clock and wait for clients in a brightly lit glass box; in the red-light district of Faridpur, Bangladesh, a madam haggles over the price of a teenage girl; and in the border town of Reynosa, Mexico, crack-addicted women pray t...

Directed By: Michael Glawogger

Written By: Michael Glawogger

  • 2012
  • Not Rated
  • Kino Lorber
  • 1 h 50 m
  • 2012
  • Not Rated
  • Kino Lorber
  • 1 h 50 m

Whores' Glory

Metascore Generally Favorable Based on 10 Critic Reviews
73
User Score Generally Favorable Based on 8 User Ratings
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Summary Whores' Glory is an explicit and unflinching exposé of global prostitution. In Bangkok, Thailand, women punch a clock and wait for clients in a brightly lit glass box; in the red-light district of Faridpur, Bangladesh, a madam haggles over the price of a teenage girl; and in the border town of Reynosa, Mexico, crack-addicted women pray t...

Directed By: Michael Glawogger

Written By: Michael Glawogger

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Metascore
Generally Favorable Based on 10 Critic Reviews
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0% Negative
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90
Apr 30, 2012
Both a wrenching journalistic exploration of real life and something close to great cinema.
By Andrew O'Hehir FULL REVIEW
80
Apr 24, 2012
There are no lava-spewing natural phenomena or gut-wrenching slaughterhouse sequences in this unofficial companion piece, but you do witness sex tourists in Bangkok choosing numbered "girlfriends" as if they were picking out lobsters in a tank.
By David Fear FULL REVIEW
75
May 24, 2012
Whores' Glory, is as sad a film as you can possibly see. To experience it is to be haunted by the bleakness and ugliness of prostitution, the hopeless trap of it, and the defeat of love that it represents.
By Mick LaSalle FULL REVIEW
75
Apr 16, 2012
While Michael Glawogger does make overtures in the wrong directions, he usually seems to know where to steer his material.
By Jesse Cataldo FULL REVIEW
70
Apr 27, 2012
Quietly powerful but dispiriting documentary, which compares the world's oldest profession as practiced from place to place.
By Stephen Holden FULL REVIEW
63
Jun 14, 2012
Glawogger has the good sense mostly to stay out of the way and let the material speak for itself.
By Mark Feeney FULL REVIEW
50
Apr 19, 2012
Austrian documentarian Michael Glawogger's Whore's Glory is no "Pretty Woman." But neither does it qualify as an expose.
By Mark Jenkins FULL REVIEW

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Production Company Lotus Film, Quinte Film GmbH, Living Films, ARTE, Beauftragte der Bundesregierung für Kultur und Medien (BKM), Zweites Deutsches Fernsehen (ZDF), i2i Audiovisual, Österreichischer Rundfunk (ORF)
Release Date Apr 20, 2012
Duration 1 h 50 m
Rating Not Rated
Genres
Website http://www.glawogger.com/htm/main_projekte.htm#glory
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Awards

Austrian Film Award, AT
• 2 Wins & 4 Nominations
IndieLisboa International Independent Film Festival
• 1 Win & 1 Nomination
London Film Festival
• 1 Nomination

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