2021 · crime · drama · romance
Madame Claude
Directed by Sylvie Verheyde1h 52m2021
Paris, the late 1960s. Madame Claude is at the head of a flourishing business dedicated to prostitution that gives her power over both the French political and criminal worlds. But the end of her empire is closer than she thinks.
Our read: Madame Claude (2021) reads as a sombre, steady, grounded crime · drama · romance entry — measured in intensity, mid-stakes in scope, cold in temperature, nihilistic in outlook.
Sombre, steady, measured crime / drama, grounded in texture. Nihilistic, mid-stakes, cold.
- sombre
- cold
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