SLIFF 2016 – Director Paul Verhoeven’s ELLE Screens Nov. 13th

ELLE screens Sunday Nov. 13th at 5pm at The Plaza Frontenac as part of this year’s St. Louis International Film Festival. Ticket information can be found HERE.

Paul Verhoeven, the iconic director of ROBOCOP and BASIC INSTINCT is back and at his provocative best in ELLE.  Michèle (Isabelle Huppert) seems indestructible: The head of a leading video-game company, she brings the same ruthless attitude to both her business and her love life. After she’s attacked in her home by an unknown assailant, Michèle reacts with her typically steely resolve by tracking down the man responsible. Both are soon drawn into a curious and thrilling game — a cat-and-mouse that threatens to spiral out of control at any moment. Variety raves: “You’ve never seen a rape-revenge fantasy quite like ELLE, not least because the rape, revenge and fantasy components of that subgenre have never been quite so fascinatingly disarranged. 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.”