(Chwala dziwkom, Michael Glawogger, Germany/Austria 2011, 110 min., German, French, English, Thai, Japanese, Spanish, Bengali, w/subtitles)

Labor. Following his documentary on Indonesian sulfur transporters, Michael Glawogger turns his lens on a different type of high-risk hard labor: prostitution. Glawogger travels the globe to document the trade in Bangkok, Faridpur, and Reynosa with an intimacy that is unprecedented, providing a necessary corrective to decades of romantic and melodramatic depictions of the “oldest profession.”

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