ELLES / ELLES

Anne is a cultivated Parisian journalist with the glossy magazine Elle. Interviewing two students who work as call-girls, she is surprised by their positive attitude to their work. The freedom enjoyed by the young women makes Anne question her own life. Just how emancipated is her relationship with her husband? Is the sex entirely voluntary? Is her sexual desire entirely separate from financial dependence? In her empathetic portraits of the three women Szumowska queries bourgeois morality and picks apart some of the clichés surrounding the “world’s oldest profession”.