Painted Angels (1997)

Directed by

Jon Sanders

Genre

drama film

Country

United Kingdom

Runtime

1h 48m

Rated

PG

Rating

6.6 of 10 from 7 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

In a 1870s brothel on the prairie, a group of women endure the harsh realities of their lives. The film follows their daily struggles and relationships in a small frontier town.

slow-burnmelancholicgrittyatmosphericsomberintimaterestrainedprairie-noir

What happens

Painted Angels (1997) (US: The Wicked Wicked West) is a film by Jon Sanders starring Brenda Fricker, Kelly McGillis, Meret Becker, Bronagh Gallagher, Lisa Jakub and Anna Mottram. The film was shot in Saskatchewan, Canada, and follows the lives of several women in a brothel in a midwestern prairie town in the 1870s. It premièred at the International Film Festival Rotterdam and was released in cinemas in the UK by Artificial Eye in February 1999 and on video in June 1999. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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