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- Director: Sam Garbarski
- Country: Belgium, Germany, Luxembourg
- Year: 2006
- Principal cast: Marianne Faithfull, Miki Manojlovic, Kevin Bishop
- Producer: Sébastien Delloye, Diana Elbaum, Georges van Brueghel
- Screenplay: Philippe Blasband, Sam Garbarski, Martin Herron
- Print source: Soda Pictures
- Film website
Maggie needs money urgently. Her grandson
is seriously ill in hospital, and the medication
that could save his life is way beyond what
his parents can afford. She will have to come
up with an idea soon if she is to give her son
and daughter-in-law fresh hope.
Desperate, Maggie, a middle-class Londoner
in her mid-fifties, finds herself responding
to a temptingly lucrative job offer at a sex club.
At “Sexy World”, the shy but sprightly widow
meets the club’s charming manager, Miki,
who gently introduces her to her tasks as a
“hostess”. Her new colleague, Luisa, acquaints
her with the rules of the game and, before
long, the conscientious Maggie becomes the
much sought after and well-paid “Irina Palm”.
Along with the cash, Maggie gains renewed
self-confidence, realising that she’s not as old,
unattractive and useless as she had believed
herself to be.
But then it transpires that her clandestine
existence begins to raise the suspicions of
both her son and her inquisitive neighbours
alike. Yet even when everything comes to
light, Maggie refuses to let this get her down…
Berlin Film Festival Programme
*Screening with the short film,
The Wednesdays
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