The Escort Wife

Vivamax releases 2 new films about prostitution in September 2022 and september 16 is “The Escort Wife,” which reminds us of the acclaimed “Belle de Jour,” one of the few Luis Bunuel films to be released in local theaters, and is the story of a doctor’s wife (the impossibly beautiful Catherine Deneuve) who secretly passes as a whore in a brothel.

In The Escort Wife, Janelle Tee plays Patricia, also the wife of a doctor, Roy (Raymond Bagatsing), who also turns to prostitution, but that’s where their similarities end. Deneuve as Severine has only herself and her wild fantasies and passions to herself, and the film is Bunuel’s own treatise on marriage and sex. In contrast, Patricia is an abandoned wife who was taken for granted by Roy after she suffered a miscarriage and lost their child.