A hotel for women-only and catering to working girls is the setting for not being able to get a USA PCA seal-of-approval for this French-film, but New York City's 55th Playhouse played it anyway. Along the way the audience meets the girl who sneaked her lover into her no-men-allowed room and her patch soon turns blue; a young lady with a passionate intensity who chooses another young lady as the object of her affections; the blindly-misguided director of the hotel, another lady of real easy virtue who is not the one who smuggled her lover into her room; and a girl who is only there as a procurer for a slavery ring.
Is this for you? If you like movies that feel like a gossip session gone wrong in a 1930s hotel, you’ll probably dig Club de femmes. It’s got that specific, slightly frantic energy where everyone is hiding something behind a lace curtain. But if you need a clean plot or characters who make rational life choices, keep w...
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Jacques Deval
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"Is this for you? If you like movies that feel like a gossip session gone wrong in a 1930s hotel, you’ll probably dig Club de femmes. It’s got that specific, slightly frantic energy where everyone is hiding something behind a lace curtain. But if you need a clean plot or characters who make rational life choices, keep walking. This movie is built on bad decisions and people getting into messes they absolutely shouldn't be in. The whole thing takes place in this boarding house that acts like a pr..."
Marion Delbo
Jacques Deval
France
1936 · IMDb 5.7
