Whores' Glory
Documentary
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2011
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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 to a deity named Lady Death.
Director:
Similar
Details
Rated:
Not Rated
Runtime:
110 min
Release date:
9 Sep 2011
Country:
AT, FR, DE, TH
Languages:
Bengali, Bangla, German, French, English, Thai, Japanese, Spanish
Budget:
$0
Revenue:
$31,313
Awards:
3 wins & 5 nominations
Top Critics Reviews
fresh:
"Whores' Glory" takes a deadpan, nonjudgmental approach, which generally works well, even if the fly-on-the-wall technique makes clear that what attracts flies usually stinks.
– Michael O'Sullivan,
Washington Post,
6 Jul 2012
fresh:
Glawogger has the good sense mostly to stay out of the way and let the material speak for itself.
– Mark Feeney,
Boston Globe,
14 Jun 2012
fresh:
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.
– Mick LaSalle,
San Francisco Chronicle,
24 May 2012
fresh:
A daring, novelistic and unforgettable account of the real lives of female prostitutes in three very different countries and social contexts.
– Andrew O'Hehir,
Salon.com,
28 Apr 2012
fresh:
Austrian documentarian Michael Glawogger takes his cameras to three red-light districts around the world, and finds life is miserable for the women who work in the world's oldest profession - and for the men who pay cash for sex.
– V.A. Musetto,
New York Post,
27 Apr 2012