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Whore - Uncut! - Ken Russell [DVD]

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Ken Russell (Director), Theresa Russell (Actor), Benjamin Mouton (Actor) Rated: Suitable for 18 years and over Format: DVD
4.3 out of 5 stars 3 customer reviews
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  • Actors: Theresa Russell, Benjamin Mouton, Antonio Fargas, Jack Nance, Danny Trejo
  • Directors: Ken Russell
  • Format: PAL, Import
  • Language: English
  • Subtitles: Czech
  • Region: Region 2 (This DVD may not be viewable outside Europe. Read more about DVD formats.)
  • Number of discs: 1
  • Classification: 18
  • Run Time: 82 minutes
  • Average Customer Review: 4.3 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
  • ASIN: B003IAYZ8M
  • Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 145,231 in DVD & Blu-ray (See Top 100 in DVD & Blu-ray)

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UNCUT 82min EDITION! Brand New & Factory Sealed. Region 2 PAL (UK & Europe). IMPORTANT: This is the official Czech release. The front cover is exactly as pictured and the back cover has Czech text. The film itself has optional Czech sound & subtitles on/off. ORIGINAL ENGLISH SOUNDTRACK - GUARANTEED > > > > > Waiting for business, hooker Theresa Russell talks directly to the camera, docudrama-style. This extended conversation with the audience continues throughout the movie. Russell's life is a grim one, and she never knows when her next client will be her last. At one point, a nervous boy in a van invites her in. She's grabbed by hidden passengers and gang-raped. Most dangerous of all is pimp Benjamin Mouton, a psychotic harpie who constantly screeches up in his sports car, grabs her earnings and beats her for good measure. In a better mood, he takes her to a tattoo parlour. He gives pain even when he's treating. "Whore" is wedged firmly between the theatres of absurd and cruelty. Humour interrupts brutality -- which then interrupts it back. "Tricks!" Russell says, after the rape episode. "They're so unpredictable". Her street knowledge is sad and wise. She used to like sex, until she realized most men bought her services not for pleasure, but for revenge. She sees the hate in their eyes. She understands prostitution sometimes isn't about sex at all, but about power... Adapted from the David Hines play "Bondage", this is Ken Russell's gritty rebuke to the sugar-coated sentimentality of Julia Roberts' "Pretty Woman". After "Whore" received an 18-Certificate compared to the 15-Cert of "Pretty Woman", Ken Russell complained that the ratings system penalised his movie because it told the truth, while rewarding "Pretty Woman" for glamorising prostitution. He may have a point, but then again "Pretty Woman" was about a character who lived in a fluffy 15-Cert world, whereas "Whore" is about a woman who lives in the real one...

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5.0 out of 5 starsWorking Girl
By DV8 Diva on 3 Aug. 2010
This is not your 'Pretty Woman' Hollywood sanitised version of a life of a Hooker. This is down and dirty, explicit, pathetic and,in places, very funny.This is a "Day in the Life" of a whore, told from her point of view, in a documentary style.
There is dialogue to camera, which some may find irritating, but stick with it. This is a "Rags to Rags" story of a woman attempting to fight back against the circumstances that led to her becoming a whore.There are flashbacks which reveal why the character became what she is.This story has a sort of triumph at the end, but the story will stay with you a long time after the film has ended.I loved it.
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4.0 out of 5 starsIt's hard to really make up my opinion
By Dennis Holmberg on 7 Mar. 2011
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This is a very typical fare for both Russells (Ken and Theressa, no relations).

For Ken it is typical for being psycho-babble with a bit of sleaze added for good measure. The film follows a hooker's daily life, by letting her speak directly to the camera.

For Theressa, it is typical because she yet again plays a sexually outgoing, but vulnerable character, in her typical high strung style. This movie, an art movie if it hadn't been for the sleazy aspect (which is only meant favorably), can be seen as a companion piece to Ken Russell's Crimes of passion, starring Kathleen Turner. For many of us, there are strong similarities between the two women Russell and Turner. Both of them made their names in the 80's, though, Russell had also starred in a couple of 70's films, both of them very generous as far as nudity went, and both were sexy almost beyond belief (after my taste), and in very similar ways. In fact, Theressa Russell has been described as a cross between Kathleen Turner and a cat, and there is something to that claim, though she is the prettier of the two.

I have to admit that I bough both movies for the two ladies, and had they starred two less interesting actors, I don't think I would really have liked them, but since I do like these two a lot, I find these films, directed by the man behind The Who's Tommy, two experiences which land somewhere between interesting experiment and guilty pleasure.
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4.0 out of 5 starsFour Stars
By FREDDIE on 15 Aug. 2014
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