Elle

Isabelle Huppert delivers a standout performance as a woman turning the tables on her attacker in the controversial director’s electrifying and provocative comeback.

3008d ago

That stance of hers will outrage many viewers, as Verhoeven intends it to, but the question of whether Elle is pernicious nonsense or an excruciating black comedy is brushed aside in Huppert’s demonstration of sangfroid. This, she shows us, is how to stand up for yourself in style. She’s the best.

3008d ago

That stance of hers will outrage many viewers, as Verhoeven intends it to, but the question of whether Elle is pernicious nonsense or an excruciating black comedy is brushed aside in Huppert’s demonstration of sangfroid. This, she shows us, is how to stand up for yourself in style. She’s the best.

3008d ago

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 — it is a platform for the astonishing, almost terrifying talent of Isabelle Huppert.

3008d ago

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 — it is a platform for the astonishing, almost terrifying talent of Isabelle Huppert.

3008d ago

That stance of hers will outrage many viewers, as Verhoeven intends it to, but the question of whether Elle is pernicious nonsense or an excruciating black comedy is brushed aside in Huppert’s demonstration of sangfroid. This, she shows us, is how to stand up for yourself in style. She’s the best.

3008d ago

High-risk material yields unexpected rewards in this remarkable rape-revenge drama, a possible career high for Paul Verhoeven.

3008d ago

Paul Verhoeven's film isn’t afraid to inhabit the maddening ambivalence of pleasure.

3008d ago

Isabelle Huppert delivers a standout performance as a woman turning the tables on her attacker in the controversial director’s electrifying and provocative comeback.

3008d ago

Even by the out-there standards of Basic Instinct and Showgirls, Paul Verhoeven's latest, Elle, is a thing to behold.

3008d ago

Paul Verhoeven's film isn’t afraid to inhabit the maddening ambivalence of pleasure.

3008d ago

Even by the out-there standards of Basic Instinct and Showgirls, Paul Verhoeven's latest, Elle, is a thing to behold.

3008d ago

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.

3008d ago

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 — it is a platform for the astonishing, almost terrifying talent of Isabelle Huppert.

3008d ago

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.

3008d ago

High-risk material yields unexpected rewards in this remarkable rape-revenge drama, a possible career high for Paul Verhoeven.

3008d ago

High-risk material yields unexpected rewards in this remarkable rape-revenge drama, a possible career high for Paul Verhoeven.

3008d ago

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 — it is a platform for the astonishing, almost terrifying talent of Isabelle Huppert.

3008d ago

High-risk material yields unexpected rewards in this remarkable rape-revenge drama, a possible career high for Paul Verhoeven.

3008d ago

Isabelle Huppert delivers a standout performance as a woman turning the tables on her attacker in the controversial director’s electrifying and provocative comeback.

3008d ago

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.

3008d ago

Even by the out-there standards of Basic Instinct and Showgirls, Paul Verhoeven's latest, Elle, is a thing to behold.

3008d ago

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.

3008d ago

Isabelle Huppert delivers a standout performance as a woman turning the tables on her attacker in the controversial director’s electrifying and provocative comeback.

3008d ago

Even by the out-there standards of Basic Instinct and Showgirls, Paul Verhoeven's latest, Elle, is a thing to behold.

3008d ago

Paul Verhoeven is back with a vengeance with the corrosive Elle.

3008d ago

Ultimately, though, the question remains: is it possible to effectively condemn a culture of violence by disseminating its very images?

3008d ago

Paul Verhoeven is back with a vengeance with the corrosive Elle.

3008d ago

Paul Verhoeven is back with a vengeance with the corrosive Elle.

3008d ago

Paul Verhoeven is back with a vengeance with the corrosive Elle.

3008d ago

Ultimately, though, the question remains: is it possible to effectively condemn a culture of violence by disseminating its very images?

3008d ago

Ultimately, though, the question remains: is it possible to effectively condemn a culture of violence by disseminating its very images?

3008d ago

Ultimately, though, the question remains: is it possible to effectively condemn a culture of violence by disseminating its very images?

3008d ago

Paul Verhoeven directs Isabelle Huppert in his first French-language feature, which premiered in competition in Cannes.

3008d ago

Director Paul Verhoeven‘s film seems designed to court maximum controversy.

3008d ago

The film is not exactly a whodunit since we learn the identity of the rapist halfway through Elle.

3008d ago

Paul Verhoeven directs Isabelle Huppert in his first French-language feature, which premiered in competition in Cannes.

3008d ago

Paul Verhoeven directs Isabelle Huppert in his first French-language feature, which premiered in competition in Cannes.

3008d ago

The film is not exactly a whodunit since we learn the identity of the rapist halfway through Elle.

3008d ago

The film is not exactly a whodunit since we learn the identity of the rapist halfway through Elle.

3008d ago

The film is not exactly a whodunit since we learn the identity of the rapist halfway through Elle.

3008d ago

Director Paul Verhoeven‘s film seems designed to court maximum controversy.

3008d ago

Paul Verhoeven directs Isabelle Huppert in his first French-language feature, which premiered in competition in Cannes.

3008d ago

Director Paul Verhoeven‘s film seems designed to court maximum controversy.

3008d ago

Director Paul Verhoeven‘s film seems designed to court maximum controversy.

3008d ago

'Robocop,' 'Showgirls' provocateur returns with taboo-tweaking tale of a sexual assault victim who turns the tables on her attacker.

3008d ago

'Robocop,' 'Showgirls' provocateur returns with taboo-tweaking tale of a sexual assault victim who turns the tables on her attacker.

3008d ago

Isabelle Huppert is gritty and fearless in shocking satire from RoboCop's Paul Verhoeven.

3008d ago

'Robocop,' 'Showgirls' provocateur returns with taboo-tweaking tale of a sexual assault victim who turns the tables on her attacker.

3008d ago

Isabelle Huppert is gritty and fearless in shocking satire from RoboCop's Paul Verhoeven.

3008d ago

'Robocop,' 'Showgirls' provocateur returns with taboo-tweaking tale of a sexual assault victim who turns the tables on her attacker.

3008d ago

Isabelle Huppert is gritty and fearless in shocking satire from RoboCop's Paul Verhoeven.

3008d ago

Isabelle Huppert is gritty and fearless in shocking satire from RoboCop's Paul Verhoeven.

3008d ago

For all its packed agenda, fearless depravity and overt controversy-baiting (it is maybe the most surprisingly un-booed title of Cannes 2016), this is still a genre film — and a very entertaining one at that — it’s just had the training wheels of taste and acceptability removed.

3008d ago

For all its packed agenda, fearless depravity and overt controversy-baiting (it is maybe the most surprisingly un-booed title of Cannes 2016), this is still a genre film — and a very entertaining one at that — it’s just had the training wheels of taste and acceptability removed.

3008d ago

For all its packed agenda, fearless depravity and overt controversy-baiting (it is maybe the most surprisingly un-booed title of Cannes 2016), this is still a genre film — and a very entertaining one at that — it’s just had the training wheels of taste and acceptability removed.

3008d ago

For all its packed agenda, fearless depravity and overt controversy-baiting (it is maybe the most surprisingly un-booed title of Cannes 2016), this is still a genre film — and a very entertaining one at that — it’s just had the training wheels of taste and acceptability removed.

3008d ago

Is there a better living actress than Isabelle Huppert? If there is, I’m all ears.

3008d ago

Isabelle Huppert chills in a troublingly funny, subversively chic rape-revenge thriller.

3008d ago

Is there a better living actress than Isabelle Huppert? If there is, I’m all ears.

3008d ago

Isabelle Huppert chills in a troublingly funny, subversively chic rape-revenge thriller.

3008d ago

Is there a better living actress than Isabelle Huppert? If there is, I’m all ears.

3008d ago

Isabelle Huppert chills in a troublingly funny, subversively chic rape-revenge thriller.

3008d ago

Isabelle Huppert chills in a troublingly funny, subversively chic rape-revenge thriller.

3008d ago

Is there a better living actress than Isabelle Huppert? If there is, I’m all ears.

3008d ago

Elle would be too clever by half — not to mention fatally offensive — were it not for Huppert, who in her portrayal of Michèle owns the movie from its opening moments to its bizarre, but not entirely surprising, denouement.

3008d ago

Elle would be too clever by half — not to mention fatally offensive — were it not for Huppert, who in her portrayal of Michèle owns the movie from its opening moments to its bizarre, but not entirely surprising, denouement.

3008d ago

Elle would be too clever by half — not to mention fatally offensive — were it not for Huppert, who in her portrayal of Michèle owns the movie from its opening moments to its bizarre, but not entirely surprising, denouement.

3008d ago

Elle would be too clever by half — not to mention fatally offensive — were it not for Huppert, who in her portrayal of Michèle owns the movie from its opening moments to its bizarre, but not entirely surprising, denouement.

3008d ago

It's hard not to anticipate many of Verhoeven's moves, but Isabelle Huppert is too good to ignore in Elle.

3008d ago

It's hard not to anticipate many of Verhoeven's moves, but Isabelle Huppert is too good to ignore in Elle.

3008d ago

It's hard not to anticipate many of Verhoeven's moves, but Isabelle Huppert is too good to ignore in Elle.

3008d ago

It's hard not to anticipate many of Verhoeven's moves, but Isabelle Huppert is too good to ignore in Elle.

3008d ago

This rape drama might make you wish you had stayed home.

3008d ago

This rape drama might make you wish you had stayed home.

3008d ago

This rape drama might make you wish you had stayed home.

3008d ago

This rape drama might make you wish you had stayed home.

3008d ago