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Pure cinema on a grand scale, “House of Pleasures” boasts a similarly subversive performance. Director Bertrand Bonello uses New Wave techniques like split screen, chiasmatic repetition and anachronistic music to take us deeply, unapologetically, into the world of high-class prostitutes in a high-class bordello during fin-de-siecle France. If anything can be said for this sumptuous, perverse “House” of visual pleasures, it’s that there’s nothing quite like it. No longer does the belle epoch seem so belle after all…

Pure cinema on a grand scale, “House of Pleasures” boasts a similarly subversive performance. Director Bertrand Bonello uses New Wave techniques like split screen, chiasmatic repetition and anachronistic music to take us deeply, unapologetically, into the world of high-class prostitutes in a high-class bordello during fin-de-siecle France. If anything can be said for this sumptuous, perverse “House” of visual pleasures, it’s that there’s nothing quite like it. No longer does the belle epoch seem so belle after all…