Elle 18
No stranger to controversy, director Paul Verhoeven’s latest offering is a provocative noir thriller that stunned audiences at Cannes.
Isabelle Huppert is mesmerising in her award-winning role as Michèle Leblanc, the CEO of a video games company, who is violently assaulted in her own home by a masked intruder. Verhoeven is typically subversive in Elle, unconcerned with fulfilling expectations of what would at first appear to be a story of revenge, by merging traumatic acts of violence with moments of dark satire.
More Basic Instinct than Showgirls, Elle is an alluring psychological thriller that is peak-Verhoeven: a film that will no doubt cause debate with its themes that explore sex, power and fantasy.
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- Director
- Paul Verhoeven
- Country
- Belgium, France, Germany
- Year
- 2017
- Duration
- 130 mins
- Cast
- Anne Consigny, Isabelle Huppert, Laurent Lafitte
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