American audiences are invited into the heart of a lavish 19th century bordello, through an exclusive clip from the first season of the Globes de Cristal Award-nominated drama show, ‘Maison Close.’ The video from the stylized French thriller series, titled ‘Trapped in Paradise,’ explores desire and power, and also re-imagines age-old themes in revolution ways.
The clip has been released in anticipation of the Canal Plus+ Series drama’s first season being distributed on home entertainment for the first time in the U.S. Music Box Films will distribute ‘Maison Close: Season One’ on February 10 on DVD, which will be sold on such platforms as Amazon. The show’s first season will also be available on Blu-ray and such VOD platforms as iTunes, Vudu, YouTube and Google Play. The DVD and Blu-ray sets include all eight unrated and uncut 55-minute episodes from the series’ first acclaimed season, as well as a collector’s book featuring photos and essays.
‘Maison Close’ was produced by Jacques Ouaniche at Noe Productions International for Canal Plus+. The show is the newest addition to Music Box’s slate of cinema-quality foreign television acquisitions. The slate also features the distributor’s last three International Emmy Award-winning releases for Best TV Movie/Miniseries or Series, including ‘Generation War’ in 2014, ‘The Returned’ in 2013 and ‘Millennium’ in 2011.
Music Box Films has released the following synopsis for Season One of ‘Maison Close’:
Set in Paris in 1871, right after the suppression of la Commune, a workers’ revolutionary movement that briefly took power, ‘Maison Close’ follows a cast of gorgeous women trapped by circumstances beyond their control in the luxury brothel, Paradise. Considered a first class closed house reserved for aristocratic or bourgeois clientele, and noted for strange and refined practices during a time when prostitution was legalized, Paradise is populated by a fascinating cast of characters, each of whom struggles to find escape and solace in their own way.
Hortense (Valérie Karsenti) is the manipulative and, in turn, manipulated mistress of the Paradise who runs her business with iron hand. Véra (Anne Charrier), the star of the bordello, is a beautiful courtesan in her thirties whose career is nearing its end. Rose (Jemima West), the heroine, is a country ingénue raised by nuns who goes to the Paradise searching for her mother, only to be blackmailed into becoming a prostitute.
Watch Shockya’s exclusive ‘Maison Close: Season One’ DVD clip, ‘Trapped in Paradise,’ below.
Written by: Karen Benardello