Elle

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noa r started well. though once all was revealed, it wasn't exactly what i was in the mood for and found it to be very weird. i was confused on what the message of the story was. was it a character study? just a erotic thriller? isabelle huppert is still able to steal the screen though. superb performance! Rated 2/5 Stars •  Rated 2 out of 5 stars 04/10/24 Full Review Alec B Like all of Verhoeven's best films, "Elle" is transgressive and constantly defies expectations. It's a unique work, one that's very much a product of the current culture and a rebellion against it. Huppert's performance deserves to be studied for years to come. Rated 4.5/5 Stars •  Rated 4.5 out of 5 stars 12/14/23 Full Review Danielle T Avec cette histoire d'une femme qui, après avoir été violée chez elle, recherche son agresseur plutôt que d'aller à la police, le nouveau film de Paul Verhoeven est tout sauf un banal récit de vengeance. Sobre en apparence, la mise en scène, à l'instar de la protagoniste, ne dévoile que graduellement son infinie complexité. Les retournements de situation abondent, ceux-ci ouvrant systématiquement sur davantage d'ambiguïtés dans la personnalité d'une héroïne fabuleusement atypique. D'un détachement inquiétant, Isabelle Huppert rend Michèle plus difficile à déchiffrer encore que ses autres personnages aux tendances sociopathes vus dans Violette Nozière et Merci pour le chocolat, de Claude Chabrol, et aussi dans La pianiste, de Michael Haneke. Il s'agit, à n'en pas douter, d'une rencontre au sommet. Rated 4.5/5 Stars •  Rated 4.5 out of 5 stars 10/17/23 Full Review Aldis H If you accuse me of not getting this oeuvre at all, you would be correct. Do the French like this? It's 100% morally bereft, and it's all a big joke and who cares? Rated 1/5 Stars •  Rated 1 out of 5 stars 10/12/23 Full Review Georgan G This movie is not for a general audience. It's a slick version of open relationships, and tastes in the bedroom that are for the BDSM crowd. The line between actual abuse and consensual role play is explored. Rated 4/5 Stars •  Rated 4 out of 5 stars 06/30/23 Full Review Dave S In a nutshell, Paul Verhoeven's Elle is a film about tortured souls. The tortured soul at the center of the movie is Elle (Isabelle Huppert), a woman whose father was a mass murderer, who finds herself trying to come to terms with and recover from a brutal rape, desperate to determine the identity of her assailant. While the standard course of action would be to make Elle a sympathetic character, Verhoeven effectively turns the tables and reveals her to be a somewhat ruthless character, seemingly bereft of morals, at one point demanding that one of her employees removes his pants to see if she recognizes his penis as that of the rapist's. Despite the fact that the movie feels like it meanders at times, it is an interesting psychological study of a woman in crisis, buoyed by yet another stellar performance from Huppert. Rated 4/5 Stars •  Rated 4 out of 5 stars 03/01/23 Full Review Read all reviews

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