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Serious moment here: Stay away from this movie if sexual assault/violence is a PTSD trigger, or if it's simply something you really don't want to see. Trailer US release: November 11, 2016 Back in the 90's, Paul Verhoeven seemingly got typecasted in Hollywood after directing Robocop, Total Recall, and Starship Troopers. The Hollywood Reporter posted:The story centers on Michele (Huppert), who seems indestructible. Head of a leading video game company, she brings the same ruthless attitude to her love life as to business. Being attacked in her home by an unknown assailant changes Michele's life forever. When she resolutely tracks the man down, they are both drawn into a curious and thrilling game that may, at any moment, spiral out of control. LA Times posted:The press notes for the film dryly say: "No American actress would take on a part this amoral." They may be right. I saw Elle at Fantastic Fest last night and Michele is one of the strongest, yet utterly depraved, movie characters I've ever seen. Isabelle Huppert masterfully juggles victim and perpetrator, and her acting had me thinking back to Daniel Day-Lewis in There Will Be Blood. Elle is brutal, thought-provoking, and of course, tough to watch. Strongly recommend it when wide release hits. air- fucked around with this message at 21:23 on Sep 26, 2016 |
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# ? Jun 5, 2024 04:35 |
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I'm pretty curious about the role video games play in this. The clip of a game in the trailer make it look like the player is a kind of animalistic assassin, so I'm guessing it ties into Michele's apparent role reversal of hunting down her attacker. It also just seems like such an unusual choice in a movie about this kind of subject matter, but hey, that's Verhoeven.
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# ? Sep 27, 2016 00:22 |
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Well, paraphrasing my thread is one way to get my attention. This movie looks incredible, and I'm happy to see Verheoven back in top form.
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# ? Sep 27, 2016 00:33 |
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LORD OF BOOTY posted:Well, paraphrasing my thread is one way to get my attention. This movie looks incredible, and I'm happy to see Verheoven back in top form. Yep, I took a look at your thread as inspiration for the OP. As I was walking out, I heard other fest attendees mentioning to also check out Belladonna of Sadness. This isn't so psychedelic/trippy though, it does so well at being real yet... some of the reactions of the protagonist are so out there, yet they make sense once you learn more about her character.
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# ? Sep 27, 2016 00:39 |
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Yeah, this seems like it covers a lot of the same thematic ground in a completely different style. I'm very interested in seeing it, for sure!
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# ? Sep 28, 2016 05:27 |
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Bump to mention that Elle was released last weekend!
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# ? Nov 14, 2016 19:01 |
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Did anyone go see it? I caught a midday showing Saturday and was a little bit disappointed. Some really fantastic moments, but overall it didn't make that great of an impression on me.
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# ? Nov 15, 2016 20:29 |
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Love Will Ferrell in this, a contemporary Christmas classic for sure
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# ? Nov 15, 2016 20:31 |
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Hat Thoughts posted:Love Will Ferrell in this, a contemporary Christmas classic for sure o i get it
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# ? Nov 15, 2016 21:12 |
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The reviewer on rogerebert.com thinks it's a masterpiece; Richard Brody (New Yorker) is less smitten, calls it Verhoeven's "macho fantasy adorned with the trappings of liberation." I can't wait to see it.
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# ? Nov 16, 2016 11:57 |
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Between this and The Lobster it's a big year for pitch black comedy. Also, while watching this my wife and I discovered that old people are just as bad as teenagers when it comes to being insufferable in theaters. I got the distinct feeling that a lot of the people in the theater with us were expecting a much more conventional thriller with a slightly older protagonist. We heard multiple "What is this movie?"''s over the course of it.
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# ? Nov 16, 2016 19:51 |
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Bumping this thread to express the travesty of this movie being excluded from the Foreign Language Oscar shortlist. Whatever. History will be on this movie's side, as well as on Paul Verhoeven's. Excellent film. Please see it in theaters if you get the chance; I'm sure that the subject matter is making it a hard sell, and these type of pictures deserve our full monetary support.
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# ? Dec 18, 2016 01:17 |
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trip9 posted:Between this and The Lobster it's a big year for pitch black comedy. I'm really not sure I'd call Elle a comedy
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# ? Dec 24, 2016 19:33 |
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blue squares posted:I'm really not sure I'd call Elle a comedy Thats how you know its a good comedy
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# ? Dec 24, 2016 19:36 |
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I think Verhoeven phrased it best
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# ? Dec 24, 2016 19:39 |
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Coaaab posted:I think Verhoeven phrased it best This can also be related to Showgirls, and the discomfort with its rather overtly black comic narrative, which is simultaneously so deliberately provocative with its violence. It's no surprise that every once in a while you get the observations, like, "Well, just because it's black comedy/satire doesn't mean it's entertaining," or whatever. It completely misses the point of unalloyed, symbolic provocation. Verhoeven is much less like David Fincher and much more like Alejandro Jodorowsky. If anybody should do a Dune one-off, it's Verhoeven.
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# ? Dec 25, 2016 06:11 |
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Elle and Isabelle Huppert won at the Golden Globes, even though I don't think Elle was the strongest foreign film I saw this year (would put Toni Erdmann and maybe The Handmaiden above it), her performance is absolutely fearless and she deserved it. Apparently it didn't make the shortlist for the Oscars though??
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# ? Jan 9, 2017 05:41 |
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It's at least good that Verhoeven got out of the typecasting after directing Robocop, Total Recall, and Starship Troopers. It's also, by employing rape as a metaphor, considerably more preferable a rape than The Neon Demon, which not only didn't have much rape, but was also loving poo poo.
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# ? Jan 11, 2017 00:30 |
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Just saw this one. I'll admit to being a bit confused about it. Especially the ending. Great job by Huppert though.
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# ? Jan 20, 2017 12:57 |
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I really liked Tim League's analysis for The Great Debate feature on Birth.Movies.Death:quote:The first title entered into The Great Debate's forum is Paul Verhoeven's powerful Elle. Alamo Drafthouse founder Tim League went up against Online Film Critics Society member Candice Frederick, and they each argued their points, Tim in support of Elle and Candice on the opposing side. Read their arguments (spoilers!) here. To me, this movie is a portrayal of a very hosed up woman. I also subscribe to the theory that Michele is a sociopath and she was the killer instead of her father. Tim League posted:This is not a film that is making a blanket statement about women or sexual assault. Instead Elle is a very particular portrait of the calm, cold and calculating mind of a sociopath. The traditional interpretation of Elle’s narrative is that Michele has these traits either because she has her father’s serial-killer DNA coursing through her veins or because her emotions were stripped or atrophied after witnessing such traumatic events as a child.
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# ? Jan 20, 2017 13:25 |
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It's a good movie. But the blatant authorial intent Ververons rape fixations just don't work, and here's why: I) hot gilf target II) Islam III) it's not winning an oscar for best foreign film
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# ? Jan 27, 2017 00:37 |
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ok is there animal death in this movie. Like that cat, I have a bad feeling about it being in the movie poster.
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# ? Jan 27, 2017 02:38 |
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SHISHKABOB posted:ok is there animal death in this movie. Like that cat, I have a bad feeling about it being in the movie poster.
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# ? Jan 27, 2017 02:52 |
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Can't wait for this to be available to me, the nastier Verhoeven gets the better.
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# ? Jan 27, 2017 19:35 |
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If it helps to sway anybody, this film made John Waters' list of top ten films of 2016. https://www.artforum.com/inprint/issue=201610&id=64773 Waters is normally very good at recommending really good films that are otherwise overlooked (although this film isn't exactly "overlooked" anyway).
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# ? Jan 27, 2017 19:56 |
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InfiniteZero posted:If it helps to sway anybody, this film made John Waters' list of top ten films of 2016. There's a paywall keeping me from seeing the full list. Is The Love Witch on there? Please tell me it is.
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# ? Jan 27, 2017 19:57 |
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Coaaab posted:https://www.artforum.com/inprint/issue=201610&id=64773
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# ? Jan 27, 2017 20:00 |
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# ? Jun 5, 2024 04:35 |
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air- posted:I really liked Tim League's analysis for The Great Debate feature on Birth.Movies.Death: Thanks for sharing! Glad that the first viewpoint is winning, because the second viewpoint misses the mark, uuhhh... bigly.
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