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Nov 11, 2016 · "Elle" is a high-wire act without a net. Advertisement. 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.
Mar 9, 2017 · Elle review – startlingly strange rape-revenge black comedy. With her steely hauteur, Isabelle Huppert is utterly arresting in Paul Verhoeven’s provocative film. No other actor could have...
- Peter Bradshaw
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Nov 10, 2016 · It’s a psychological thriller, a strangely dry-eyed melodrama, a kinky sex farce and, perhaps most provocatively, a savage comedy of bourgeois manners. Mostly, though — inarguably, I would say ...
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May 27, 2016 · Paul Verhoeven on Elle: 'It is not a rape comedy' Benjamin Lee. No female actor in Hollywood would touch it. But the director’s perverse black comedy starring Isabelle Huppert was the...
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May 21, 2016 · Paul Verhoeven’s new film, Elle, is an outrageous black comedy, volatile and deadly; a film that opens up with a sexual assault and then cleans off the blood ahead of a posh restaurant...
- Xan Brooks
Box office. $12.7 million [3] Elle ( French for 'she' / 'her') is a 2016 psychological thriller film directed by Paul Verhoeven from a screenplay by David Birke, based on the novel Oh... by Philippe Djian. Djian's novel was published in 2012 and received the Prix Interallié (National Literary Award). [4]
Nov 11, 2016 · It is, nonetheless, very nice to hear from Verhoeven again, and while it’d be wrong to say the film is a comedy — it’s fundamentally a very serious proposition — it’s often a very funny ...
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