Movie Drama
She wrote WHORE. This is her life.
A high-class prostitute by choice, Nelly Arcan’s colorful life is recreated in a multi-layered and stylish mix of make-believe and memoir, revealing Nelly’s alter egos: the neurotic writer, the vulnerable lover, the call girl and the star. Nelly shocked the literary world with her elegant writing and the lurid details of sex work in her autobiographical first novel, Whore, which became a critically acclaimed bestseller. Despite unprecedented success, Nelly’s remarkable life ended in tragedy.
Canada Canada
Mylène Mackay Milya Corbeil-Gauvreau Mickaël Gouin Francis Leplay Sylvie Drapeau Catherine Brunet Emmanuel Schwartz Marie-Claude Guérin Marc Béland Francis Ducharme Jason Cavalier Karelle Tremblay Audrey Ann Tremblay Leïla Thibeault-Louchem Noa André Nico Gagnon Martin Boily Roxane Bourdages Blaise Tardif Jean-Moïse Martin Karl Farah Mathieu Lepage Xavier Roberge Nathan Boutin Valérie Flan Michel Thériault André Nadeau Sophie Martin Lance Hadden Benoit Poirier Eulalie Gagné Jean Lachance Jean-Simon Leduc Larissa Corriveau Annie St-Pierre Patrick Lapierre Mélissa Gagné Véronique Pascal Marie-Kim Kelly Charlotte Bégin Shanda Pall Réjean Jacques
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