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Alice review – sex-worker drama fails to sell its preposterous premise – The Guardian
Emilie Piponnier does her best as a single mother plunged into crisis but this shallow story does not do its subject justice
This debut feature from Australian director Josephine Mackerras was a success at last years SXSW festival; it is well acted and all hangs together in plot terms. But its depiction of high-end sex work is glib and naive.
The setting is Paris and Emilie Piponnier plays Alice, the young stay-at-home mother of a little boy; her husband François (Martin Swabey) is a handsome and successful university academic. Everything looks good for the picture-perfect family until one day Alices debit card is de…
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