Elle

Terrific, compelling acting dominates this quirky, creative, unpredictable, thought-provoking, twisting, dark,130-minute Paul Verhoeven psychological thriller based on Philippe Djian's novel in which a wealthy, divorced French business woman (Isabelle Huppert), who co-owns a videogame company with another woman (Anne Consigny), has a testy relationship with her botox-addicted mother (Judith Magre) who is dating a much younger man (Raphaƫl Lenglet), and is estranged from her incarcerated, serial killer father, is brutally raped by a masked man in her Paris apartment and then decides not to contact the police and search for the rapist herself and ignores the advice of her broke writer ex-husband (Charles Berling), her married boyfriend (Christian Berkel), and her slacker son (Jonas Bloquet) who is in an abusive relationship with his pregnant, controlling girlfriend (Alice Isaaz).
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