- Format: PAL
- Region: Region 2 (This DVD may not be viewable outside Europe. Read more about DVD formats.)
- Number of discs: 1
- Classification: 15
- Studio: In2film
- DVD Release Date: 18 May 2009
- Run Time: 500 minutes
- Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (1 customer review)
- ASIN: B001V7P2ZE
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 58,446 in Film & TV (See Top 100 in Film & TV)
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Nick Broomfield's "Chicken Ranch" focuses on the famous legal brothel Chicken Ranch in Nevada (somewhere out in the back of beyond in the desert) circa 1983.
A line up of reasonably attractive (yet very mundane looking) twenty-somethings sell their bodies for three-weeks of the month through the year for a 50/50 earning (the rest going to the owner and to pay towards their upkeep, rent, medical checks, expenses and other various things.
Regardless of all these girls basically being prostitutes, this really paints all of them as being 'real people' with real feelings. While the conversations heard in this film may have been somewhat shocking in 1983, none of it would sound out of place in a 'Sex in the City', 'True Blood' or 'Shameless' episode nowadays.
The documentary gives very little description of the passing of time - this could be over the space of weeks or months, or mere days. What this DOES give is a very real feel for the way these women lived - in an absolutely isolated trailer-set ranch in the middle of a desert.
While it doesn't go incredibly into depth of what sent these girls to their chosen profession (this isn't a one-on-one basis interview type of documentary as we're used to seeing from Broomfield), we do get a fly-on-the-wall view of what their troubles are and what bothers them about their jobs as they discuss with each other how they are treated and how they feel about the people who employ them and use them for their services.
If you're a fan of Broomfield's work, then this is absolutely a must see documentary (very observational). My only real qualm about it was the lack of any narration (a little character background or initial narration would have been nice but Broomfield WAS very amateur back then compared to now) and a follow up would have been somewhat helpful to let us know what ended up happening to the girls following their stint at the Ranch in 1983.
Here's hoping Broomfield decides to find out what happened to some of these colorfully painted girls and how their lives ended up.
A line up of reasonably attractive (yet very mundane looking) twenty-somethings sell their bodies for three-weeks of the month through the year for a 50/50 earning (the rest going to the owner and to pay towards their upkeep, rent, medical checks, expenses and other various things.
Regardless of all these girls basically being prostitutes, this really paints all of them as being 'real people' with real feelings. While the conversations heard in this film may have been somewhat shocking in 1983, none of it would sound out of place in a 'Sex in the City', 'True Blood' or 'Shameless' episode nowadays.
The documentary gives very little description of the passing of time - this could be over the space of weeks or months, or mere days. What this DOES give is a very real feel for the way these women lived - in an absolutely isolated trailer-set ranch in the middle of a desert.
While it doesn't go incredibly into depth of what sent these girls to their chosen profession (this isn't a one-on-one basis interview type of documentary as we're used to seeing from Broomfield), we do get a fly-on-the-wall view of what their troubles are and what bothers them about their jobs as they discuss with each other how they are treated and how they feel about the people who employ them and use them for their services.
If you're a fan of Broomfield's work, then this is absolutely a must see documentary (very observational). My only real qualm about it was the lack of any narration (a little character background or initial narration would have been nice but Broomfield WAS very amateur back then compared to now) and a follow up would have been somewhat helpful to let us know what ended up happening to the girls following their stint at the Ranch in 1983.
Here's hoping Broomfield decides to find out what happened to some of these colorfully painted girls and how their lives ended up.
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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful
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1 Oct 2011
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just watched Chicken Ranch, interesting for the business aspects, straight (which seems to mean just missionary sex), 69, frappe (?) and half and half seem to be the cheapest while bubble baths and waterbeds cost a lot more. The social aspects, women don't get off here and the ranch owner feels he is doing a great service to veterans, armless and legless men get treated as if "they were whole men."
This is only dirty in regards to conversation, no sessions are shown really (ala Fetishes) and Broomfield himself (as with all his early work) is absent. Still a great film, likely in his top 4.
This is only dirty in regards to conversation, no sessions are shown really (ala Fetishes) and Broomfield himself (as with all his early work) is absent. Still a great film, likely in his top 4.
0 of 3 people found the following review helpful
This sucked... NO NUDITY
1 Feb 2011
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Its a movie about a whore house that has no nudity. Some lingerie shots... They coulda at least showed a topless girl... WASTE OF TIME and money. It was boring too.
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