Working Girls (1987)
Directed by Lizzie Borden
A lesbian college graduate, trying to bankroll her own photography business, works as a high-priced New York City escort.
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There is nothing erotic about the film's explicit carnality (a laudable instinct that reminded me a great deal of Lizzie Borden's exceptional Working Girls), but neither is very much insight provided into the cool irony of the film's title: the ways in which frustrated people try and fail to connect with one another.
I thought once or twice about Lizzie Borden's amazing Working Girls, which takes place entirely in a brothel.
Compare this effort to the likes of Borden’s Working Girls, Donna Deitch’s Desert Hearts, or Cheryl Dunye’s The Watermelon Woman.
Titles like Working Girls, Pariah, Portrait of a Lady on Fire, and Carol are but a handful that shatter society’s thinly-sketched or dehumanizing visions of lesbian existence with their richly moving artistry.