Working Girls (1986)
This reminded me a great deal of Jeanne Dielman, even though there is a lot more going on here and comparatively faster paced, it still a disturbingly neutral and non-judgemental depiction of prostitution. The casual normalcy of a working environment that could be almost any line of work, just set in a brothel, gets to you in much subtler and deeper ways than the usual depiction of violent male pimps abusing their woman. There is quite a bit of both nudity and sex, but it is entirely stripped of anything resembling eroticism. The film refrains from being judgemental about both its character or the viewer. There is never fingers pointing or specific moral takings in the center. Everything just is and the power lies with the mundane normalcy.
Criterion Challenge - 47. Women Directors: The Official Top 250 Narrative Feature Films
Rating: 4