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Newspaper Page TextTHU FRI SAT SUN MON TUES WED THU BY RICK LEVIN Jan 12 Jan 11 Jan 10 Jan 9 Jan 8 Jan 7 Jan 6 Jan 5 movies BLACKTHORN REVENGE OF THE ELECTRIC CAR You can't kill an idea whose time has come. C I N E M A S ENDS TONIGHT! for Jan 5 - Jan 12 A R T 4:45 9:30 7:00 2:15 7:00 2:15 7:00 7:00 7:00 MARTHA MARCY MAY MARLENE 7:00 4:45 4:45 4:45 4:45 5:20 2:45 5:20 2:45 5:20 5:20 MELANCHOLIA 8:00 8:00 8:00 4:45 4:45 4:45 Maria Anna Mozart, older than Wolfgang and a musical prodigy in her own right. MOZART’S SISTER 5:20 7:00 7:00 ELIZABETH OLSEN JOHN HAWKES 5:20 5:20 5:20 A LARS VON TRIER FILM starring KIRSTEN DUNST 8:00 8:00 HOUSE OF PLEASURES 8:00 8:00 8:00 a highly cinematic and atmospheric look at the final days of a turn of the century Parisian brothel 9:00 9:00 9:00 9:00 9:00 9:00 9:00 492 East 13 th COMING SOON: A DANGEROUS METHOD A LONELY PLACE TO DIE FULLMETAL ALCHEMIST 686-2458 bijou-cinemas.com *Adults—$7*Students w/ID—$6*Seniors—$5*Matinees—$5*Lates—$5*Miser Mondays—$3* TIX $2 Tix 21 & FOOD $5 Sun & Tues ovER MENU MAN BITES DOG 762-1700 | 180 E. 5TH AVE davidminortheater.com THURS JAN 5 – WED JAN 11 THU A Pound of Flesh Sex and vengeance reside in House of Pleasures HOUSE OF PLEASURES (L’Apollonide (Souvenirs de la maison close)): Written and directed by Bertrand Bonello. Cinematography, Josée Deshaies. Editor, Fabrice Rouaud. Starring Jasmine Trinca, Hafsia Herzi, Alice Barnole, Iliana Zabeth, Noémie Lvovsky. IFC Films, 2011. R. 122 minutes. 44441 P rostitution, contrary to that infamous adage, is not the world’s oldest profession. The world’s oldest profession is the pinch — called sales by some, theft by others — of which prostitution is only a subset. Fucking might be the world’s oldest pastime, but the idea of paying for anonymous sex could only arise in the quid pro quo of a market economy. Trade begat currency, and the unsentimental solvency of cold, hard cash slapped a price tag on a piece of ass. Everything else is just love, lust or rape. At one point in House of Pleasures, the new ﬁ lm by French director Bertrand Bonello, a whore propositions her patron by asking, matter-of-factly, “Shall we have commerce?” What a line — Marx, Freud and the Marquis de Sade couldn’t have put it any better. I half expected the man to reach into his coat, produce a jar of Grey Poupon and exclaim, “But of course!” No such luck: The only humor exhibited in this strange, beautiful and viscerally affecting movie rises like dust from the gallows ﬂ oor. House of Pleasures depicts daily life in the upscale Apollonide, a brothel at the turn of the 20th century. Just whose pleasures are being housed is difﬁ cult to say. The movie is inexhaustibly curious about men and women and money and fucking, and remorseless in its desire to probe the nooks and crannies of carnality — every pore, every stray pubic hair — but the results are about as erotic as a colonoscopy. Sex here is only a commodity. It is also, for Bonello, a means of investigating a slew of dark and disturbing issues, both symbolic and literal, including exploitation, perversion, alienation, violence and the insidious slavery of indentured servitude. The movie is shot entirely inside the labyrinthine bordello, and the crepuscular lighting, coupled with the ragged, tired and often disrobed female bodies, can make characters difﬁ cult to distinguish and identify — similar, not insigniﬁ cantly, to the way it’s sometimes hard to tell who is who in war movies. Comprising a sort of ragtag family of adult orphans uniﬁ ed by their indentured servitude, these women — forever trying to pay off their “debts” to escape the brothel — bond with a kind of battleﬁ eld mentality, equal parts tenderness and tough love. As they prepare for an evening’s work, their banter is familiar, crude, plaintive and given to crude jokes and constant belittling of the infantile needs of their johns. One whore complains that a regular client is “always asking what I think of his crooked cock,” and another causes a chilling ﬁ t of laughter when she claims, “fucking is a fucking awful job.” House of Pleasures is a heartbreaking and infuriating ﬁ lm — a eulogy for a bygone age delivered with unprecedented candor and an underlying vibe of terror. And yet Bonello’s vision, despite the messy realism and unadorned grit with which he portrays the twilit tragedies of prostitution, is more atmospheric than dramatic; like the work of David Lynch or Terrance Malick, House of Pleasures forgoes the tensions and revelations of straight narrative for a kind of brooding, ominous psychology. The ﬁ lm’s characters, however — far from being abstract cutouts of ideas — are all ﬂ esh and bone. You ache their aches. What minimal plot there is involves an act of horrible violence and the slow- boiling vengeance that ensues: Madeleine, nicknamed the Jewess (Alice Barnole), is horribly disﬁ gured when a knife-wielding sociopath, playing a game of sadistic seduction, suddenly carves her smile ear- to-ear. Thus an inverted hierarchy of pain is revealed, with Madeleine, “the woman who laughs,” plunged to the extreme depths of this slavish hell. When a newly arrived candidate, Pauline (Iliana Zabeth), tells the Madame (Noemie Lvovsky) she is seeking her freedom through prostitution, she receives nothing but a bewildered laugh. “Fake it during sex,” the Madame tells her. “That’s how we do it.” Pauline ends up paired with a john who makes her dress like a geisha and speak mock-Japanese; another whore is forced to move like a robot, human doll. When Julie (Jasmine Trinca), dying of syphilis, is abandoned by her john, her response is like an epitaph: “Men have secrets but no mystery.” ew House of Pleasures opens Friday, Jan. 6, at Bijou Cinemas; info & times at bijou-cinemas.com WWW.EUGENEWEEKLY.COM • BLOGS.EUGENEWEEKLY.COM MIDNIGHT IN PARIS 7:30 OUR IDIOT BROTHER 9:20 RISE OF THE PLANET OF THE APES 9:20 Regular Menu: Jumbo American Dog ................ $4.25 Big All-Beef Frank ...................... $4.50 Polish Kielbasa .......................... $5.25 Sicilian Sausage ......................... $5.25 Cajun Hot Links ........................ $5.25 Mediterranean Chicken Sausage $5.25 Oktoberfest Sausage .................. $5.25 Jalapeño Cheddar Frank ............ $5.25 Chili Dog Supreme .................... $5.50 Giant German Beer Sausage ...... $5.25 British Pub Sausage ................... $5.25 NY Coney Island Dog ............... $5.50 Vegan Meatless Sausage ............ $5.25 Dog Of The Day: Knock-Out Knockworst ...... 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Tix on Sale BEAUTY AND THE BEAST IN REAL D 3D - EVENT PRICING Call Theatre for Showtimes Adv. Tix on Sale CONTRABAND Call Theatre for Showtimes Times For 01/06 - 01/07 © 2012 EUGENE WEEKLY JANUARY 5, 2012 17