Review of Madame Claude (2021 Film):

If you watch this movie you’re probably aware of the overdose of sleazy you’ll be experiencing. While I could accept the sex scenes that go with the territory, I wasn’t prepared to deal with the disjoint, pedestrian editing.

Madame Claude is the occasional voice over, but her narrative is unreliable. For instance, she mentions she started her “career” as a prostitute (not much of a surprise) and we’re shown a scene in the past where she defended a colleague from a customer’s beating. You might assume Madame is against violence, but immediately after, one of her “girls” is subject to brutal beating and Madame comment is just “Wash and have a good sleep to forget about it”.

Then she proclaims she doesn’t have the time for a “love story” and immediately after she’s hooking up with a sleazy guy. The lack of consistency is not the only problem, the editing goes from past to present with no logic; the character of Madame’s daughter is introduced for no reason and then abandoned; the sex scenes are way too frequent, so that the movie is more a soft porn that doesn’t need a plot than a legitimate film.