Working Girls (1986) [The Criterion Collection, Spine #1087]
BDRip 720p | MKV | AVC, 1200x720, ~ 2.9 Mbps | 1hr 33mn | 2.18 GB
English: AC3, 1 ch, 256 kbps \ English (commentary): AC3, 1 ch, 192 kbps
Subtitles: English
Genre: Drama
BDRip 720p | MKV | AVC, 1200x720, ~ 2.9 Mbps | 1hr 33mn | 2.18 GB
English: AC3, 1 ch, 256 kbps \ English (commentary): AC3, 1 ch, 192 kbps
Subtitles: English
Genre: Drama
Director: Lizzie Borden
Writer: Lizzie Borden(story), Sandra Kay(screenplay)
Stars: Louise Smith, Ellen McElduff, Amanda Goodwin
Sex work is portrayed with radical nonjudgment in Lizzie Borden’s immersive, richly detailed look at the rhythms and rituals of society’s most stigmatized profession. Inspired by the experiences of the sex workers Borden met while making her underground feminist landmark Born in Flames, Working Girls reveals the textures of a day in the life of Molly (Louise Smith), a photographer working part-time in a Manhattan brothel, as she juggles a steady stream of clients, balances nurturing relationships with her coworkers with the demands of an ambitious madam, and above all fights to maintain her sense of self in a business in which the line between the personal and the professional is all too easily blurred. In viewing prostitution through the lens of labor, Borden boldly desensationalizes the subject, offering an empathetic, humanizing, often humorous depiction of women for whom this work is just another day at the office.
Extras:
- Audio commentary from 2007 featuring Borden, director of photography Judy Irola, and actor Amanda Goodwin
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