{"id":21229,"date":"2025-01-31T22:53:05","date_gmt":"2025-01-31T22:53:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theamericanfrenchfilmfestival.org\/?p=21229"},"modified":"2025-01-31T22:53:50","modified_gmt":"2025-01-31T22:53:50","slug":"maison-close","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theamericanfrenchfilmfestival.org\/maison-close\/","title":{"rendered":"MAISON CLOSE"},"content":{"rendered":"

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MAISON CLOSE<\/h2>\n

| 2010~2013 – 16 x 52′ – Season 1 & 2 – Series, Drama, Period & History.
\nCreated by: Jacques Ouaniche.
\nWritten by:\u00a0Anne Viau,\u00a0C\u00e9cile Ducrocq, Franck Philippon,\u00a0Jean-Baptiste Delafon, Clara Bourreau, Eric Benzecri.
\nDirected by:\u00a0Jacques Ouaniche,\u00a0Mabrouk El Mechri,\u00a0Carlo Da Fonseca,\u00a0J\u00e9r\u00f4me Cornuau.
\nStarring:\u00a0Anne Charrier,\u00a0Val\u00e9rie Karsenti,\u00a0Jemima West,\u00a0Nicolas Brian\u00e7on, Catherine Hosmalin,\u00a0Cl\u00e9mence Bret\u00e9cher,\u00a0Micha\u00ebl Cohen,\u00a0Deborah Grall, Blandine Bellavoir.
\nIn French with English subtitles.
\nA Music Box Films\u00a0release. |<\/span><\/p>\n

Set in a lavish 19th Century Parisian bordello, the provocative and popular French erotic drama Maison Close invites American audiences into a sumptuous, stylized world where desire and power reign. Following the suppression of la Commune, a short-lived workers\u2019 revolutionary movement in the 1870s, a cast of gorgeous women trapped by circumstances reside in \u201cParadise,\u201d a top-rate \u201cclosed house\u201d reserved for aristocratic or bourgeois clientele and known for its strange and refined practices during a time of legalized prostitution. Hortense (Val\u00e9rie Karsenti) is the ruthless and manipulative madame who runs her business with an iron fist; V\u00e9ra (Anne Charrier) is the stunning star courtesan in her 30s nearing the end of her career; and country ing\u00e9nue Rose (Jemima West, Mortal Bones: The City of Instruments), arrives in search of her mother, only to be blackmailed into becoming a prostitute. By turns both erotic and political, this uncompromising, finely crafted television series is the perfect mix of style and substance, a richly compelling period drama with unmistakably modern flair that reimagines age-old themes\u2013and the world\u2019s oldest profession\u2013in bold new ways.<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n

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