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MOVIE · 2016

Elle

ActionAdventureCrimeDramaRomanceThriller131 min

After a violent attack in her home, Michèle refuses to let fear take over the life she has built. Isabelle Huppert is the head of a video game company, cool and exacting even as family strain, sexual entanglements, and Christmas-season gatherings press in around her. Instead of stepping back, she begins tracking the unknown man who assaulted her, turning the aftermath into a tense, unnerving cat-and-mouse pursuit. Paul Verhoeven directs in French, with Laurent Lafitte and Anne Consigny among the people orbiting Michèle's tightly controlled world.

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