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By Scott Tobias (1,684) for The Dissolve (1,478) on 12 Aug 2014

Abuse Of Weakness is the director’s attempt to account for actions that seem inexplicable, and make the audience understand and sympathize in kind…

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By Zachary Wigon (46) for Village Voice (8,525) on 11 Aug 2014

Breillat's impressive film is a study of bodies and how we carry them, and it explores the manner in which weakness seeks out strength on an…

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By Ela Bittencourt (29) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 24 Jul 2014

Breillat's scripting of Maud as fatally distant from her family, willfully independent, but more believably abandoned, is haunting…

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By Daniel Walber (66) for Nonfics (197) on 04 Jun 2014

Somehow both a fiery work of conviction and an insecure, open-ended question…

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By Walter M (1,360) on 07 May 2014

Lacks momentum yet authentic, coupled with Isabelle Huppert's great performance…

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By Beth Hanna (13) for Thompson on Hollywood (89) on 28 Apr 2014

The title of the film may be Abuse of Weakness, but Isabelle Huppert's performance as a filmmaker who suffers a stroke and then gets willingly…

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By Ws W (1,791) on 25 Oct 2013

Catherine Breillat gets more personal than she has ever been in her entire career in her latest film Abuse of Weakness…

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By Elise Nakhnikian (118) for House Next Door (153) on 02 Oct 2013

With her customary genius for baring a character's soul while guarding some private place at her core, Huppert plays Maud's cards close to the vest…

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By Kent Turner (504) for Film-Forward.com (768) on 29 Sep 2013

The physical demands of the role offer a new opportunity for Huppert, who is otherwise on automatic pilot, aloof and disdainful…

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By Christopher Schobert (126) for The Playlist (3,871) on 17 Sep 2013

Abuse of Weakness is a frustrating experience, yet one that feels utterly unique and relentlessly watchable…

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By Boyd Van Hoeij (303) for The Hollywood Reporter (7,050) on 17 Sep 2013

Like in all of the director’s work, psychologically reductive readings of the characters are absent, though intriguing performances give…

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By Peter Debruge (1,557) for Variety (12,700) on 17 Sep 2013

Of all living actresses, only Huppert could capture nuances that alternately elicit sympathy and fierce sexual attraction to a recent stroke victim…

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By R. Emmet Sweeney (27) for The L Magazine (26) on 12 Sep 2013

The message in Catherine Breillat's Abuse of Weakness is about the incomprehensibility of the self. It's an autobiographical purging…

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By Ben Kenigsberg (863) for AV Club (2,778) on 12 Sep 2013

The movie is interesting to think about as another of the Anatomy Of Hell director's power-struggle portraits, even if its conceit-by design-leaves…

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By Eylem E (39) on 06 Sep 2013

Catherine Breillat's films have always been autobiographical, often painfully so, and yet Abuse of Weakness cuts even closer to the marrow…

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