Small Bulletin Lyon - Cinema Lyon: our films of the week - Rights to the whores!Cécile Ducrocq and Claus Drexel carry prostitution on the screen - article published by Vincent Raymond

On the one hand, a documentary on the transvestites/trans/prostitutes/prostitutes of the Bois de Boulogne, whom Claude Drexel's camera frames in a static shot at all seasons of the year, collecting their confidences on their daily life, their sex work and what led them to practice it. On the other, a fiction by Cécile Ducrocq where a courageous mother kills herself with the task by multiplying the passes to pay for a private cooking school for her big dad of teenager who goes wrong. If in both cases, there is no heroization or eroticization of prostitution, there is also no misery or lady-patroness self-pity for the fate of the protagonists. This does not prevent the films from being magnificently photographed, offering here sublime still lifes; there plans worthy of Schatzberg or 33rpm covers.

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Men and women

In Une femme du monde, the character played by Laure Calamy is also an activist who asserts loud and clear, within an association and in front of the Strasbourg parliament , his right to do his job freely, vituperating in the company of his fellow brothers the hypocritical law penalizing customers passed in 2016 under Hollande, supposed to protect vulnerable people from mafia pimping networks without prohibiting prostitution, but placing makes those who deliberately choose it more precarious. Oh, Cécile Ducroq does not idealize anything; it shows the difference in standing between the independents cultivating their bit of sidewalk and their regulars, and then the girls of the vans exploited by whole carloads or the residents of the Teutonic brothels. No amalgam between the consented choice and slaughter or slavery, therefore.

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In Au cur du bois (title to be understood in all possible meanings), modesty and listening are, like the speakers, at the center of the device. Never as good a filmmaker as when he signs documentaries (see America), Claus Drexel makes himself forgotten as much as possible to offer his vis-à-vis the opportunity to tell his story and, sometimes, to free himself from heavy burdens. Where we measure that there is in their priesthood, an essential social function that beautiful minds refrain from considering: the relationship is not only sexual, but also human or even psychoanalytical with the client. The bourgeois unconscious of the legislators having resolved to rid the streets of an evocation/incitement to sexuality, caused in addition to the drop in income of the peripatetics, the return of clandestine slaps, all in an almost Victorian climate. Progress by regression, in short.

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Transparent with his interlocutors, Drexel shows that he sometimes had to pay to obtain confidences, client of an exchange. But also how much he knew how to win their trust and their respect in order to lay them bare through words, captured at the source like Cécile Ducrocq.

★★★☆☆ In the heart of the woodsA documentary by Claus Drexel (Fr, 1h30)

★★★☆☆ A Woman of the World A film by Cécile Ducrocq (Fr, 1h35) with Laure Calamy, Nissim Renard, Béatrice Facquer

In the heart of the woods

By Claus Drexel (Fr, 1h30), Documentary

By Claus Drexel (Fr, 1h30), Documentary

In the legendary Bois de Boulogne, Samantha, Isidro, Geneviève and the others do the oldest job in the world. Between secrets, humor and dignity, they take us to the heart of the Bois