Elle (2016)
Country: FR/GER/BEL
Technical: col/2.35:1 130m
Director: Paul Verhoeven
Cast: Isabelle Huppert, Laurent Lafitte, Anne Consigny, Charles Berling, Christian Berkel
Synopsis:
The CEO of a video game design company finds that her father's turbid past as a mass murderer catches up with her in more ways than one. However, her reaction is unconventional, to say the least.
Review:
Part Hitchcockian thriller, part a very French sexual drama among middle-aged professionals, Verhoeven's late succès de scandale achieves comparative restraint in both areas and is presided over by the magnetic, glacial Huppert, in her sixties but still managing to convey sexuality effortlessly. An undercurrent of catholicism runs through the film, but this is not really explored. Rather, the pathology of the principal characters is seen to be something bequeathed to them, beyond their control.
Country: FR/GER/BEL
Technical: col/2.35:1 130m
Director: Paul Verhoeven
Cast: Isabelle Huppert, Laurent Lafitte, Anne Consigny, Charles Berling, Christian Berkel
Synopsis:
The CEO of a video game design company finds that her father's turbid past as a mass murderer catches up with her in more ways than one. However, her reaction is unconventional, to say the least.
Review:
Part Hitchcockian thriller, part a very French sexual drama among middle-aged professionals, Verhoeven's late succès de scandale achieves comparative restraint in both areas and is presided over by the magnetic, glacial Huppert, in her sixties but still managing to convey sexuality effortlessly. An undercurrent of catholicism runs through the film, but this is not really explored. Rather, the pathology of the principal characters is seen to be something bequeathed to them, beyond their control.
Country: FR/GER/BEL
Technical: col/2.35:1 130m
Director: Paul Verhoeven
Cast: Isabelle Huppert, Laurent Lafitte, Anne Consigny, Charles Berling, Christian Berkel
Synopsis:
The CEO of a video game design company finds that her father's turbid past as a mass murderer catches up with her in more ways than one. However, her reaction is unconventional, to say the least.
Review:
Part Hitchcockian thriller, part a very French sexual drama among middle-aged professionals, Verhoeven's late succès de scandale achieves comparative restraint in both areas and is presided over by the magnetic, glacial Huppert, in her sixties but still managing to convey sexuality effortlessly. An undercurrent of catholicism runs through the film, but this is not really explored. Rather, the pathology of the principal characters is seen to be something bequeathed to them, beyond their control.