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Irina Palm
Irina Palm
6.7
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356 Ratings

IRINA PALM

Directed by Sam Garbarski
Belgium, Germany, 2007
Drama

Synopsis

Maggie’s grandson is seriously ill and the medication to save him is way beyond what his parents can afford. Desperate, the middle-class Londoner finds herself responding to a lucrative job offer at a sex club. The shy widow meets the club’s manager, who introduces her to her tasks as a “hostess”.

Synopsis

Maggie’s grandson is seriously ill and the medication to save him is way beyond what his parents can afford. Desperate, the middle-class Londoner finds herself responding to a lucrative job offer at a sex club. The shy widow meets the club’s manager, who introduces her to her tasks as a “hostess”.

Our take

Five decades after her memorable appearance in Jean-Luc Godard’s Made in U.S.A., musician Marianne Faithful returns to the screen again in Sam Garbarski’s comedic Berlinale competitor Irina Palm—starring here as a widowed sex worker in London’s red-light district. A fascinating character study.