A fictional day in the life of a Manhattan boutique bordello, Lizzie Borden’s “Working Girls” is as witty, gimlet-eyed and discomfiting as when it won a special award at the 1987 Sundance Film Festival.
The movie, not to be confused with Mike Nichols’s 1988 rom-com “Working Girl,” has been digitally restored and, in advance of a Blu-ray release, is having a theatrical run at the IFC Center in Manhattan. “Working Girls” opens with Molly (Louise Smith) waking at 7 a.m.
in an East Village tenement, making breakfast for her partner’s young daughter and bicycling uptown to her place of employment.
Her first order of business is inserting a diaphragm — the matter-of-factness provides the movie’s first jolt. Borden’s previous film, “Born in.