MAISON CLOSE

| 2010~2013 – 16 x 52′ – Season 1 & 2 – Series, Drama, Period & History.
Created by: Jacques Ouaniche.
Written by: Anne Viau, Cécile Ducrocq, Franck Philippon, Jean-Baptiste Delafon, Clara Bourreau, Eric Benzecri.
Directed by: Jacques Ouaniche, Mabrouk El Mechri, Carlo Da Fonseca, Jérôme Cornuau.
Starring: Anne Charrier, Valérie Karsenti, Jemima West, Nicolas Briançon, Catherine Hosmalin, Clémence Bretécher, Michaël Cohen, Deborah Grall, Blandine Bellavoir.
In French with English subtitles.
A Music Box Films release. |

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’ revolutionary movement in the 1870s, a cast of gorgeous women trapped by circumstances reside in “Paradise,” a top-rate “closed house” reserved for aristocratic or bourgeois clientele and known for its strange and refined practices during a time of legalized prostitution. Hortense (Valérie Karsenti) is the ruthless and manipulative madame who runs her business with an iron fist; Véra (Anne Charrier) is the stunning star courtesan in her 30s nearing the end of her career; and country ingénue 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–and the world’s oldest profession–in bold new ways.

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