Rémy Héritier

Portraits of women, stories from their past and their present as prostitutes working between Italy and France (and Brazil). Women who used to think they were lost, and men just as lost as them.

“Why did you kill her?” Lou asks Philippe again. The life-odyssey of Joana, a modern-day Moll Flanders, continues as she moves through different times and places, like the stations of a personal via crucis, with occasional leaps into the present. From Paris to Rome and on to São Paulo. The body has lost every value, except the economic one.

Médée, héroïne du mythe grec, est devenue Irène, qui vit aujourd'hui parmi nous. Elle est une étrangère qui a abandonné sa terre d'origine, pour épouser un Français, Jason, le père de ses deux enfants. Elle chante chaque soir dans un cabaret pour subvenir aux besoins de sa famille. Un jour pourtant, Jason la quitte pour une autre, une française.