Madame Claude

Paris in the late 1960s, where Madame Claude (Karole Rocher) runs a prostitution business that gives her a hold over both the politicians and the gangsters of the city. Sylvie Verheyde follows her through the years of that rise, with Sidonie (Garance Marillier) among the young women Claude takes under her roof. Rocher stands in the shadow of the empire she built, her stare steady, and the grain of the film settles over her.