Whores' Glory 2012

Whores' Glory

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Movie Info

Prostitutes from around the world discuss their profession.
  • Genre:
    documentary
  • Original Language:
    German
  • Director:
    Michael Glawogger
  • Release Date (Theaters):
     limited
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  • Box Office (Gross USA):
    $30.6K
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  • Production Co:
    Österreichischer Rundfunk (ORF) [at], Arte, Lotus Film, Living Films, Quinte Film, Zweites Deutsches Fernsehen

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Michael Glawogger
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  • "Whores' Glory" takes a deadpan, nonjudgmental approach, which generally works well, even if the fly-on-the-wall technique makes clear that what attracts flies usually stinks.

    July 6, 2012 | Rating: 3/4 | Full Review…

    Michael O'Sullivan

    Washington Post
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  • Glawogger has the good sense mostly to stay out of the way and let the material speak for itself.

    June 14, 2012 | Rating: 2.5/4 | Full Review…

    Mark Feeney

    Boston Globe
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  • To experience it is to be haunted by the bleakness and ugliness of prostitution, the hopeless trap of it, and the defeat of love that it represents.

    May 24, 2012 | Rating: 3/4 | Full Review…

    Mick LaSalle

    San Francisco Chronicle
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  • A daring, novelistic and unforgettable account of the real lives of female prostitutes in three very different countries and social contexts.

    April 28, 2012 | Full Review…

    Andrew O'Hehir

    Salon.com
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  • Austrian documentarian Michael Glawogger takes his cameras to three red-light districts around the world, and finds life is miserable for the women who work in the world's oldest profession - and for the men who pay cash for sex.

    April 27, 2012 | Rating: 3/4 | Full Review…

    V.A. Musetto

    New York Post
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  • [A] quietly powerful but dispiriting documentary, which compares the world's oldest profession as practiced from place to place.

    April 26, 2012 | Rating: 3.5/5

    Stephen Holden

    New York Times
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Audience Reviews for Whores' Glory

  • Jul 14, 2014
    This film is probably one of the grittiest, glaringly horrific, and offensive documentaries to deal with the world of sex workers, worldwide. The subjects depicted in these three thirld world countries are open and opininated about their work and the sexual politics associated with their profession. It's so painfully aware of its own degradation and accuracy, shot beautifully and yet so ugly in its content. Director Michael Glawogger travelled to Thailand, Bangladesh, and Mexico to examine the attitudes of its citizens in regards to how women are treated as commodities. The women see their profession as an ends to a mean, and their only hope, while men see them as objects, and the interchangeable dialogue between the two reflects a dissonance of opinion on the subject of gender politics. The use of music, cinematography, and interviews interspersed between the action, really detail the inhumane conditions of the sex industry and the horrible standards set by a begrudging society.
    Spencer S Super Reviewer
  • Nov 22, 2013
    This movie strives and succeeds to do nothing more than give us complete, unrequited intimacy with female prostitutes of Thailand, Bangladesh, and Mexico, none of whom wanted their names on the film. It's remarkable how candid and comfortable everyone is with the camera present. There is no verbal narrative from Director Glawogger, only the women and their customers, but Glawogger complements their stories with a delicate soundtrack and camera angles full of information, sensation, and introspection. There are no judgements explicitly placed here, nor are there any motions of activism. The film invites the viewer to think for themselves about the whys and the hows of economics, society, culture, and the instinctual drive for both sex and survival. In one scene, a young, soft spoken Bangladeshi who looked as if she knew her life is already written on the wall, broke a silence, "We women are actually very unhappy creatures. It is very hard to survive as a woman . . . Why do women suffer this much? Isn't there another path for us?" She paused. "Is there a path at all? . . . Who can truly answer this question?" Who, indeed.
    Matthew S Super Reviewer
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