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Nov 10, 2016 · NYT Critic’s Pick. Directed by Paul Verhoeven. Crime, Drama, Thriller. R. 2h 10m. By A.O. Scott. Nov. 10, 2016. The opening scene of “Elle” is a shocker: a brutal sexual assault witnessed by a...
Nov 30, 2016 · By Rachel Donadio. Nov. 30, 2016. There are two unexpected orgasms in “ Elle ,” the latest film by Paul Verhoeven, and both are achieved by Michèle, played by the French actress Isabelle Huppert...
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Based on the novel by Philippe Djian, adapted for the screen by David Birke (and then translated into French by Harold Manning), "Elle" is a maniacal and confident hybrid of various genres. It's a rape-revenge-ensemble-comedy-thriller-stalker mashup, if you can even picture that.
This is a film which continually confounds audience expectations – that plays one moment like a very grim thriller about sexual violence and the next like one of Luis Bunuel’s barbed, surrealistic...
Nov 11, 2016 · Elle: Directed by Paul Verhoeven. With Isabelle Huppert, Laurent Lafitte, Anne Consigny, Charles Berling. A successful businesswoman gets caught up in a game of cat and mouse as she tracks down the unknown man who raped her.
May 21, 2016 · Film Review: ‘Elle’ High-risk material yields unexpected rewards in this remarkable rape-revenge drama, a possible career high for Paul Verhoeven.
