Fiction
Elle
Paul Verhoeven
FRA, DEU 2015
130 min
V'16
Isabelle Huppert plays Michele, now the tough and highly successful head of a violent video game company, the daughter of a reviled father serving life for mass murder. In the opening sequence, Michele is raped by a masked intruder. But she has no use for the police, treats the attack in the most matter-of-fact way, and begins her own resourceful pursuit of this man. Based on a 2012 novel, “Oh ...” by Philippe Djian, ELLE is outrageous, funny and shocking, exhilarating and original. Its portrait of a woman always in command of herself, no matter what, makes every other attempt at grand guignol look gauche. (David Sexton)
Credits
- Isabelle Huppert - Michèle
- Laurent Lafitte - Patrick
- Anne Consigny - Anna
- Charles Berling - Richard
- Virginie Efira - Rebecca
- Christian Berkel - Robert
- David Birke
- Stéphane Fontaine
- Job te Burg
- Anne Dudley
- Laurent Ott
- Nathalie Raoul
SBS Productions, Twenty Twenty Vision Filmproduktion, France 2 Cinéma, Entre Chien et Loup
SBS International
Filmladen
DCP
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