Working Girls

Lizzie Bordon's (BORN IN FLAMES) second feature is a condid and often amusing look at a day in the life of photographer Molly, who happens to also make money as a prostitute in a small Manhattan brothel. Molly is an ordinary woman, an artist and a college graduate, and WORKING GIRLS is about prostitution as work — not as a moral or psychological problem. Working against the grain of most representations of prostitution, Borden marks out a bright, tasteful space dominated by women, in which men are temporary intrusions. The sex scenes are presented frankly, in all their silliness, mundanity, and horror, to show that in the rituals of these sessions — which are not unlike the rituals of dating — the women are in control.