Elle

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«Nobody except Isabelle Huppert, this truly fearless precision actress, could have played this role: Michèle runs a successful video game studio. She has everything under control, is confident, sarcastic, efficient. And she remains so even after being brutally raped in her villa by a masked intruder.» (Michael Sennhauser, SRF, May 2016) «Gradually, the rape becomes a catalyst for her self-empowerment: she sees through the testosterone-fueled relationship web of her employees, ends an affair and starts another, finally says goodbye to the ghosts of her own biography. And she succeeds in a cunning revenge. More than a thriller, Elle is a malicious social comedy that thrives and blossoms around a realized rape fantasy. Verhoeven fulfills the traditions of the bourgeois French farce with affairs, misunderstandings, and lies, combining them with the Rape-Revenge motif into something fascinatingly new.» (Magdalena Miedl, kino-zeit.de, Feb 2017) Participants and additional information: Director: Paul Verhoeven Screenplay: David Birke Author: Philippe Djian Cinematographer: Stéphane Fontaine Music: Anne Dudley Editing: Job ter Burg Cast: Isabelle Huppert (Michèle), Laurent Lafitte (Patrick), Anne Consigny (Anna), Charles Berling (Richard), Virginie Efira (Rebecca), Judith Magre (Irène), Christian Berkel (Robert), Jonas Bloquet (Vincent)