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ELLES screens Friday August 10th at 9:35 pm and Saturday August 11th at 7:10 pm at the Cleveland Cinematheque.]
Review by Charles Cassady, Jr.
Its back-to-school time (or, if you're an American gun owner, Open Season), and while a college education in Ohio's no-jobs economy no longer means anything as far as material worth, the Cleveland Cinematheque is still on duty trying to provide University Circle youth reasons to fork over all that tuition. Case in point is Friday and Saturday's all-prostitution-international-movie double feature, right there on campus. In glorious Tramp-o-Rama, I guess. Programmers have paired an interesting, if lurid documentary
WHORE'S GLORY, with - no not that Italian sexist omnibus of yesteryear
THE OLDEST PROFESSION - but rather a Euro-flick prostitution drama with unimpeachable feminist credentials,
ELLES.
If you mentally checked out of this review when you stumbled over the word "feminist," two things: you're probably a guy (or an uncommonly smart female) and you know where
ELLES is going, pretty much into victimhood. Yes, guilty as charged, and if ever Match.com sets you up on a date with director Malgorzata Szumowska, don't say Charles didn't warn you.
