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Elle

2016

Paul Verhoeven

Isabelle Huppert, Laurent Lafitte, Anne Consigny, Charles Berling ...

6.4

18,918

Thriller. Drama When Michelle, the CEO of a gaming software company, is attacked in her home by an unknown assailant, she refuses to let it alter her precisely ordered life. She manages crises involving her 75-year-old sex kitten mother, her imprisoned mass murderer father, her spoiled and immature son, her ex-husband and her lover, all with the same icy equanimity. This is the approach she brings to the situation when it appears that her assailant is ... [+]

	Author	Review
United States	Jordan Mintzer The Hollywood Reporter	"A tastefully twisted (...) thriller that’s both lasciviously dark and rebelliously light on its feet (...) The result is a movie that will finally bring Verhoeven back into the spotlight after a decade-long absence."	POS
United States	Chris Nashawaty Entertainment Weekly	"Is there a better living actress than Isabelle Huppert? (...) She can even turn a slightly trashy art-house thriller like Elle into something more interesting than the sum of its preposterous parts"	NEU
United Kingdom	Robbie Collin Telegraph	"Paul Verhoeven’s new film is a needling, ingenious challenge. (...) 'Elle' forces you to critically confront every myth it indulges, every cliché it embraces and subverts (...) Rating: ★★★★ (out of five)"	POS
United Kingdom	Xan Brooks The Guardian	"Isabelle Huppert delivers a standout performance (...) in the controversial director’s electrifying and provocative comeback (...) The film is utterly gripping and endlessly disturbing. (...) Rating: ★★★★★ (out of five)"	POS
United States	Rex Reed The New York Observer	"A sensational, nerve-frying thriller (...) It's too twisted and implausible to be everybody's cup of tea, but it keeps you glued to the screen from beginning to end (...) Rating: ★★★ (out of four)"	POS
United States	Peter Travers Rolling Stone	"Verhoeven creates a bonfire of a movie that scrutinizes and satirizes the unholy alliance between sex and violence. The result is fiendishly funny and fiercely disturbing (...) Rating: ★★★½ (out of four)"	POS
United States	Guy Lodge Variety	"High-risk material yields unexpected rewards in this remarkable rape-revenge drama, a possible career high for Paul Verhoeven."	POS
United States	Eric Kohn IndieWire	"[Verhoeven] has delivered his most contained work in years, a dark comedy about sexual urges and other passions (...) Huppert imbues Michéle with terrific ambiguity."	POS
United States	A. O. Scott The New York Times	"Leads its audience through a meticulously constructed maze of ambiguity, scrambling our assumptions and expectations at every turn"	POS

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