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Whores' Glory

Director in Person
Screening on Film
$12 Special Event Tickets
Directed by Michael Glawogger.
Germany/Austria, 2011, digital video, color, 119 min.
German, English, French, Thai, Japanese, Spanish and Bengali with English subtitles.

The newest and last film of Glawogger's trilogy, Whores' Glory is itself a trilogy, with sections set in Thailand, Bangladesh and Mexico. He documents women prostitutes at work in three different contexts, three different countries: a slick Bangkok brothel, the huge "City of Joy" compound in Faridpur, and a dangerous and forlorn Mexican motel. Neither a moralizing exposé nor a titillating glimpse of forbidden fruit, the film captures the eye-catching side of sex work without ignoring that it is indeed work. Whores' Glory not only refuses to judge the prostitutes, but it maintains an open-minded equanimity about the sex trade in general. Some of the women point out that they are able to earn amounts of money that would be otherwise impossible; others are clearly oppressed by pimps and procurers of both sexes. – DP

Whores' Glory introduction and post-screening discussion with David Pendleton and Michael Glawogger.

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