Fresh
"Whores' Glory" takes a deadpan, nonjudgmental approach, which generally works well, even if the fly-on-the-wall technique makes clear that what attracts flies usually stinks.
Michael O'Sullivan, Washington Post
Overview
In Bangkok, Thailand, women punch a clock and wait for clients in a brightly lit glass box; in the red-light district of Faridpur, Bangladesh, a madam haggles over the price of a teenage girl; and in the border town of Reynosa, Mexico, crack-addicted women pray to a deity named Lady Death.
Director and cast
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Top critics, in their words
84%
Tomatometer
Fresh
Glawogger has the good sense mostly to stay out of the way and let the material speak for itself.
Mark Feeney, Boston Globe
Fresh
To experience it is to be haunted by the bleakness and ugliness of prostitution, the hopeless trap of it, and the defeat of love that it represents.
Mick LaSalle, San Francisco Chronicle
Fresh
A daring, novelistic and unforgettable account of the real lives of female prostitutes in three very different countries and social contexts.
Andrew O'Hehir, Salon.com
Fresh
Austrian documentarian Michael Glawogger takes his cameras to three red-light districts around the world, and finds life is miserable for the women who work in the world's oldest profession - and for the men who pay cash for sex.
V.A. Musetto, New York Post
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