Review of Elle (2016) by Guy Lodge for Variety — 20 May 2016
Knowingly incendiary but remarkably cool-headed, and built around yet another of Isabelle Huppert’s staggering psychological dissections, Paul Verhoeven’s long-awaited return to notional genre filmmaking pulls off a breathtaking bait-and-switch: Audiences arriving for a lurid slab of arthouse exploitation will be taken off-guard by the complex, compassionate, often corrosively funny examination of unconventional desires that awaits them.
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This review of Elle (2016) was written by Guy Lodge and published by Variety on 20 May 2016.
Elle has generally received positive reviews.
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