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Fantastic!

The movie's neither hopeful in contrived ways, nor hopeless in different contrived ways. Somehow it manages to be wonderful

It's the kind of movie you'll want to see a second time with someone who hasn't seen it yet, to remember what it was like to watch it for the first time.

Actress is magnificent and exudes a hypnotic screen presence in this affecting drama.

I'll watch paint dry if the painting pulls me in. The well-developed characterization did exactly that. Early on in the film, when Eileen stands up at her sister's wake to sing My Lagan Love, a haunting Irish air in her raw and sincere alto, I knew I would be watching the story of sisters past. I'll admit some of the dialog was thin, perhaps could have been much better crafted, but the portrayal of the poignancy of the respective lives of the "girls" in Annie's house held my interest all the way.Indeed plots and subplots do exist. How will Eileen deal with her profound sense of loneliness? How will Katya's survival instincts save her? What will happen to aging Ada? How will Georgie deal with the pain she causes her sisters in slavery? How will the house survive to continue to support its girls, for as Nettie says, much worse places exist? The painterly cinematography is at once rich and stark. Many times the camera dwells on one of the girls alone and brooding, achieving the effect of a colorized daguerreotype. Chick flick? Yep.The soundtrack performed by Continuum Orchestra is one reason why I've enjoyed this film through many watchings.I agree with an earlier poster that the VHS packaging did this artistic film a great injustice, and perhaps ultimately resulted in so many bad reviews here.

The film is made in the manner of a dark brooding Scandinavian melodrama and is more of a slice of the darker side of prostitution. I saw it on video by Sterling and they should be shot for the box promotion which indicated more of a sensual sexual randy tale: "Expert in the pleasures of the flesh, these women...put the wild in the west." Obviously the person writing this did not bother to watch the film. On the video cover three saloon dressed typed women were added (none of whom were in the movie) further adding to the false advertising of the film. Yes it is slow and even boring and hardly uplifting, but it is a tale of women trapped in a degrading 'lifestyle.' The nudity in this film is about as titilating as the nudity in Jennifer Connelly's "Requiem for a Dream".

This is the worst movie I have ever seen.Nothing happens in the entire movie and there is nothing to distract you from sitting in the cinema wondering why you have paid money to watch this.I could find no redeemable features for this movie and find it astonishing that this could ever get made never mind released into the cinemas.At least from now on when I am watching a bad movie I'll be able to console myself with the though "At least it isn't Painted Angels"

The preceding user comments are all painfully accurate.This movie is slow and boring. However, it does depict, in a gritty, realistic way, the allegedly good old days that some people think were superior in every way to our modern era.Most folks back then lived the kind of dreary existence that this movie portrays. In this case, the dreariness is prostitution in the boondocks.On the plus side, the movie was beautifully filmed. The lighting in the brothel at night was appropriately dim, which certainly renewed my appreciation for electricity.However, the sound is awful. The actors mumble, and a few of them mumble with a thick accent, so I'm sure I missed dialog that was probably important to the story.Some scenes had me stumped. For instance, the theatrical piece with the horse. What the heck was THAT all about??