Elle
Dir: Paul Verhoeven
France/Germany/Belgium, 2016, 130minmins
Cast: Isabelle Huppert, Charles Berling, Laurent Lafitte, Anne Consigny
Paul Verhoeven caps off his long, unsettling career by returning to the screen after a 10-year absence with a very different view of rape. Verhoeven here presents a controlling female executive who responds to her assault by covering it up and then turning the tables on the rapist in a powerful pas de deux marked by humor and intelligence. A script, according to the director, that was rejected by many Hollywood stars before finding Isabelle Huppert, leading Verhoeven to his first film in French. And a work that, in turn, became one of the highlights at this year’s Cannes Film Festival. Unusual, provocative and exciting fare from a septuagenarian master.
2016 Cannes Film Festival, In Competition
Screening:
In-theatre Screening
2016-08-30 (Tue)
19:002016-08-30 (Tue)
21:452016-10-12 (Wed)
21:30
The Grand Cinema
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