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Working girls

Call Number

  • DVD DRAMA (CEN)

Edition

Director approved DVD special edition.

Languages

English subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing.

Performers

Louise Smith, Ellen McElduff, Amanda Goodwin, Marusia Zach, Janne Peters, Helen Nicholas.

Publication Information

[Irvington, NY] : Criterion Collection, [2021]

Physical Description

1 videodisc (93 minutes) : DVD video, sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet (36 pages, color illustrations ; 19 cm.)

Audience

Not rated.

Summary

"Sex work is portrayed with radical nonjudgment in this immersive, richly detailed look at the rhythms and rituals of society's most stigmatized profession. Inspired by the experiences of the sex workers Borden met while making her underground feminist landmark Born in Flames, Working Girls reveals the textures of a day in the life of Molly, a photographer working part-time in a Manhattan brothel, as she juggles a steady stream of clients, balances nurturing relationships with her coworkers with the demands of an ambitious madam, and above all fights to maintain her sense of self in a business in which the line between the personal and the professional is all too easily blurred. In viewing prostitution through the lens of labor, Borden boldly desensationalizes the subject, offering an empathetic, humanizing, often humorous depiction of women for whom this work is just another day at the office."--Container.

Notes

Originally released as a motion picture in 1986.

Special features: New, restored 4K digital transfer, supervised by director Lizzie Borden ; audio commentary from 2007 featuring Borden, director of photography Judy Irola, and actor Amanda Goodwin ; new conversation between Borden and filmmaker Bette Gordon ; new conversation with Goodwin, actor Louise Smith, producer Andi Gladstone, and assistant director Vicky Funari ; new conversation with sex workers Antonia Crance, Daphne, Selena the Stripper, and Jo Weldon.

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