Whores' Glory

Austria, Germany

2011

119 Min

Color

1.85:1

German, French, English, Thai, Japanese, Spanish, Bengali

Currently 4.1/5 Stars.
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PROD Erich Lackner, Thomas Pridnig, Peter Wirthensohn, Mirjam Quinte, Pepe Danquart

SOUND Paul Oberle, Ekkehard Baumung

Venice (Horizons): Horizons Award - Special Mention, Toronto (Real to Reel), London (Cinema Europa), Göteborg (Mästare), Istanbul (Documentary Time), BAFICI (La ley del deseo)

Synopsis

Whores’ Glory is a cinematic triptych on prostitution: three countries, three languages, three religions. In Thailand, women wait for clients behind glass panes, staring at reflections of themselves. In Bangladesh, men go to a ghetto of love to satisfy their unfulfilled desires on indentured girls. And in Mexico, women pray to a female death to avoid facing their own reality. In worlds where the most intimate act has become a commodity, these women have physically and emotionally experienced everything that can happen between a man and a woman. For this they have always received money, but it has not made their lives rich in anything but stories. –The Match Factory

Director

Michael Glawogger

Born in Graz, Austria, in 1959, Michael Glawogger is a traveling filmmaker. Not only does he literally journey around the world for his documentaries, he also moves back and forth between forms and genres, between photography and writing, between gentler and more forceful tones. He graduated from the San Francisco Art Institute and the Vienna Film Academy and has since worked as a director, writer, and cinematographer in Vienna, Bangkok, and Znojmo. He plans to shoot in Poland and Bangladesh in the near future. —glawogger.com

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Matthew_Lucas

12May12

Michael Glawogger's eye opening documentary about global prostitution never takes a stand on whether or not the things he is observing is right or wrong, choosing instead to present it for the audience's consideration. Powerfully observant, WHORE'S GLORY is both shocking and intimate, a piercing exploration of the women who sell themselves and the men who love them. Vibrantly alive and strangely moving.

Alex

24Apr12

The cinematography, combination of images and music, the sensitivity, telling the truth as it is, trying to see the beauty in everything, those intimate stories, some happy, some sad, those realized dreams and those broken dreams. One of the best documentaries in the last years, Thank you Michael Glawogger, it was what i was looking for.

Chai Walla

19Apr12

Rather than resorting to victimhood or offering condescending palliatives, 'Whores' Glory' instead imprints a vivid sense of human connection that overrides our responses based in conventional morality. While Glawogger has a self-important and somewhat rockstarish approach as a filmmaker, he is still, in my opinion, absolutely vital, his profound commitment to the subjects resonating from the film's soulful core.

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