Elle (film)

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For the 2010 American teen film, see Elle: A Modern Cinderella Tale.
Not to be confused with Elles (film).

Elle
Theatrical release poster
Directed byPaul Verhoeven
Screenplay byDavid Birke
Based onOh...
2012 novel
by Philippe Djian
Produced by
Starring
CinematographyStéphane Fontaine
Edited byJob ter Burg
Music byAnne Dudley
Production
companies
Distributed by
  • SBS Distribution (France)
  • MFA+ Filmdistribution (Germany)
Release dates
  • 21 May 2016 (2016-05-21) (Cannes)
  • 25 May 2016 (2016-05-25) (France)
  • 16 February 2017 (2017-02-16) (Germany)
Running time
130 minutes
Countries
  • France
  • Germany[1]
LanguageFrench
Budget$9.1 million[2]
Box office$12.7 million[3]

Elle (French for 'she' / 'her') is a 2016 psychological thriller film directed by Paul Verhoeven from a screenplay by David Birke, based on the novel Oh... by Philippe Djian. Djian's novel was published in 2012 and received the Prix Interallié (National Literary Award).[4] The film stars Isabelle Huppert as a businesswoman who is raped in her home by a masked assailant and decides not to report it due to her past experience with police.

The film was Verhoeven's first feature since 2006's Black Book, and his first in the French language. It premiered in competition for the Palme d'Or at the 2016 Cannes Film Festival where it received critical acclaim.[5] Elle won the Golden Globe Award for Best Foreign Language Film and Critics' Choice Movie Award for Best Foreign Language Film; it was also selected as the French entry for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film, but was not nominated.[6] At the 42nd César Awards in France, the film received eleven nominations, and won Best Film.

Huppert's performance was widely acclaimed, considered to be one of the finest of her career. She was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actress, and won several Best Actress awards, including the Golden Globe Award, César Award, National Society of Film Critics Award, New York Film Critics Circle Award, Los Angeles Film Critics Association Award, Gotham Independent Film Award, and the Independent Spirit Award.

Plot[edit]

Michèle Leblanc is raped in her home by an assailant in a ski mask. She then cleans up the mess and resumes her life. She is the head of a successful video game company, where her male employees are alternately resentful of or infatuated with her. She carries on an affair with Robert, the husband of her friend and business partner Anna, and flirts with her married neighbor Patrick. Michèle feels detached from her son Vincent, who submits to his abusive, pregnant girlfriend Josie. She has a contentious relationship with her mother, Irène, whom she resents for her narcissism and involvements with younger men. Furthermore, she is the daughter of an infamous mass murderer whose parole hearing is approaching. Haunted by her father's actions, Michèle is wary of law enforcement and does not report her rape to police.

Michèle grows increasingly suspicious of the men in her life. She receives harassing text messages from her assailant at a blocked number, indicating he is stalking her. She at first suspects Kurt, a particularly resentful employee, when a CGI animation of a monster raping her is emailed to everyone at the company. She pepper-sprays a man lurking outside her house, only to find out it is her ex-husband Richard, who was checking on her safety. She later discovers that another employee, who has been infatuated with her, created the animation but did not rape her.

On Christmas Eve, Irène suffers a stroke and begs her daughter to go see her father before she dies in hospital. Michèle is later attacked in her home by the assailant and, after stabbing his hand and unmasking him, learns that he is Patrick. Though she now knows his identity and realizes that he is able to enter her home despite having her locks changed, she still does not call the police and takes no measures to increase her home security.

Michèle decides to visit her father after his parole application is rejected, only to find that he has hanged himself hours before she arrives. On the way home from the prison, she gets into a car crash in a secluded area. Rather than calling an ambulance, she first tries to call her friends, and then decides to call Patrick. After he rescues her from the car and bandages her, Michèle courts a brazenly dangerous sexual relationship with him. She engages in a vivid rape scenario with him. The two of them walk a delicate line in which Patrick has to feel as though he is raping Michèle, even though she consents to the roleplay.

Michèle grows increasingly disillusioned with her life leading up to the launch party for her company's new video game. She confesses to Anna that she was having an affair with Robert. As Patrick drives her home, Michèle professes that she is no longer in denial about their unhealthy relationship and claims she intends to call the police. She takes her time walking in front of his parked car after getting out, and then makes a point of leaving her gate unlocked. Patrick enters and attacks her in an ambiguous encounter that blurs the line between rape and consent, but Vincent, who was already in the house, sneaks up behind Patrick and bashes him in the back of the skull. Michèle appears to remain largely composed, but Patrick is seemingly confused as he dies.

Michèle speaks briefly with Patrick's wife Rebecca as she is moving out of the neighbourhood. Rebecca is placid and expresses gratitude to Michèle for being able to temporarily "satisfy Patrick's needs"—implying that she was aware on some level that the two were sexually involved and that Patrick had inclinations she couldn't satisfy. Vincent is now more assertive in his relationship and career, while Michèle reconciles with both Josie and Anna; the latter offers to move in with her now that they have both severed their relationships with Robert.

Cast[edit]

Production[edit]

Development[edit]

Paul Verhoeven stated that he felt the movie was an opportunity for him to do "something very different to anything I've done before. But this stepping into the unknown, I think it's very important in the life of an artist. It puts you in an existential mode. As an artist you have to, as much as possible, step into the unknown and see what happens to you."[7] The project was unveiled at the Marché du Film during the 2014 Cannes Film Festival where it was described as "pure Verhoeven, extremely erotic and perverted."[8] Verhoeven was looking for an actress who would be "prepared to take that on" and believed Nicole Kidman "could handle this role."[9] He also considered Charlize Theron, Julianne Moore, Sharon Stone, Marion Cotillard, Diane Lane, and Carice van Houten for the role of Michèle, a businesswoman who is raped in her home by an unknown assailant and refuses to let it alter her precisely ordered life.[9][10][11][12] Verhoeven told The Guardian that he reckons that the only American actress who would have been willing is Jennifer Jason Leigh. "She would have had absolutely no problem, she's extremely audacious. But she's an artistic presence and we were looking for names," he said.[13] Verhoeven's inability to convince a major American actress to play the part left him frustrated, as he later explained, "I agree that there are not many female parts – certainly not in American cinema. It's weird that when there is one, they lacked the audacity to be controversial. I hope all these actresses see the movie."[13]

The film was originally supposed to take place in Boston or Chicago but, according to Verhoeven, it proved to be "too difficult" to shoot the film in the United States due to its violent and immoral content as "that would have meant getting more into the direction of Basic Instinct, but a lot of the things that are important in the movie would probably have been diminished. By bringing it more into a thriller direction, I think it would have lost everything. It would probably have been banal and transparent. The mystery would have gone."[14][15] Verhoeven then decided to do it in French and used a significant time before production to learn the language, in order to effectively communicate with the predominantly French cast and crew.[16] In September 2014, French actress Isabelle Huppert signed on to star in the film as Michèle.[17] Huppert had expressed interest in a screen adaptation of the book before Verhoeven, whom she described as "one of the best directors in the world for me,"[18] joined the production and accepted the part immediately, "I had no doubt about the integrity to the role. Of course if you just circle the story to the rape and a woman being attracted by the man who raped her, I mean, that really makes the whole purpose very, very narrow and limited. I think it's a lot more than this. And she's really an interesting character because she always goes against predictable definitions of what it means to be a woman, what it means to be a man. Obviously, the movie's about a woman. But it's also about men, you know, and the men are sort of fading figures, very weak, quite fragile. So it's really also about the empowerment of a woman."[19]

Filming[edit]

Leading actress Isabelle Huppert

Principal photography began on 10 January 2015 for a ten-week shoot.[20] Filming took place in and around Paris. A planned sequence in Paris' main police station was cancelled following the Charlie Hebdo shooting on 7 January.[21] The film was also shot in a house for Huppert's character in Saint-Germain-en-Laye for five weeks.[22] Verhoeven's mise-en-scène for the film was influenced by three films: Federico Fellini's 8½, Jean Renoir's The Rules of the Game and Orson Welles' Touch of Evil. Every scene was choreographed, and Verhoeven storyboarded the whole film himself.[16] He chose to shoot the film with two Red Dragon cameras,[23] as "These days the amount of time a director is given to make a movie has diminished by 40 to 50 percent. Working with two cameras solves part of that problem while giving you the opportunity to do things that you wouldn't do before."[16]

When the film wrapped, Verhoeven described the shoot as "difficult"[24] but later admitted that "in retrospect, it was very pleasant and easy."[25] He dismissed rumors that Elle was an "erotic thriller" in the tradition of some his previous films, including Basic Instinct, "Those people who think that this is an erotic film will be disillusioned. They are in for a strange confrontation with a movie that is... not ordinary. I don't think the story is erotic; it's about rape. An erotic thriller would be a bit weird, right? I mean, it might be erotic for the person doing it, but I don't think that rape in general is something you would call erotic."[16] On 13 May 2015, he told Variety he had "a strong feeling with this one that I was doing something that I'd never done before, which applied when I made RoboCop."[26] He also praised Huppert's performance, saying that "She is an extremely gifted actress that gives you more than what's on paper… even what's in the book. She does experiments in her mind to get to places that she would probably avoid in reality. And she does that in an absolutely unique way."[26] He also said in an interview with Film Comment:

She's one of the most brilliant actors I've ever met in my life. She's so extremely special and is able to avoid any cliché in any situation, always finding a different way of doing things. She comes up with all kinds of extra details that you wouldn't even dream of, that I would never come up with on my own. She's not only a great actress but she is also especially imaginative and creative in her approach to the character. I didn't have to tell her anything about Michèle because it was clear from the first shot that she knew exactly what her character would do and how she would behave in whatever circumstance. She is extremely audacious and she really had no problem with anything that was in the script, so I have an enormous respect for her.[16]

During the rape scene, Isabelle Huppert struggles and then says 'Arrête!' ('Stop it!', in French), which was not written in the script. "It was very violent, I must say. I was a little scared, too. So I had to make them understand that they shouldn't go any further... Sometimes, when there are very physical scenes, like this one, you can hurt yourself. It's part of the things that you don't understand. It was not planned that I say it, even less in French. I felt that they needed to hear something different," Huppert said.[27]

Music[edit]

The score of Elle was composed by English composer Anne Dudley and was released on 23 September 2016.[28]

Release[edit]

Huppert and Verhoeven promoting the film at the 2016 Cannes Film Festival

The first poster for the film was released in May 2015, during the Cannes Film Festival where SBS Productions sold the film internationally.[26] On 16 January 2016, the first trailer and the final poster were released.[29] On 11 March 2016, French film magazine Le Film français announced that SBS Distribution had brought forward the release date from 21 September to 25 May 2016.[30] On 14 April 2016, it was announced that the film had been selected to compete for the Palme d'Or in the main competition section at the Cannes Film Festival.[31] On 27 April 2016, several images of the film were released.[32]

On 11 May 2016, it was announced Sony Pictures Classics had acquired distribution rights to release the film in North America, Latin America, Australia, New Zealand, Scandinavia, Eastern Europe (excluding Russia) and Asia (excluding China and Japan). Sony, who had previously acquired Verhoeven's Black Book, said in a statement: "This thriller is Paul Verhoeven at his very best and Isabelle Huppert gives the performance of a lifetime. Elle promises to be a hit with audiences this fall." Verhoeven added: "Sony has always been my home in the US, and I'm excited that Sony Classics will take care of Elle with the wonderful actress Isabelle Huppert. I'm pleased that even my European films have ended up with them."[33] Following the film's Cannes premiere, Sony announced its theatrical release in the United States on 11 November 2016.[34]

On 12 August 2016, it was announced Picturehouse had acquired distribution rights to release the film in the United Kingdom and Ireland. Clare Binns, director of programming and acquisition at Picturehouse, praised Verhoeven, whom she described as "a master filmmaker who has always made provocative and exciting work without compromise—Elle is no exception" and also said, "This gripping, multilayered thriller bowled me over in Cannes and I know it's going to be a big talking point. This is what proper cinema for adults is all about."[35] The film was released in the United Kingdom on 10 March 2017, which made it not eligible for the 70th British Academy Film Awards.[36]

The film also screened at the Toronto International Film Festival on 8 September 2016, the San Sebastián International Film Festival on 18 September, the BFI London Film Festival on 8 October, the New York Film Festival on 14 October, and the AFI Fest on 13 November, where Isabelle Huppert was honored with a special tribute to her career.[37]

The film was screened at the 72nd Berlin International Film Festival in February 2022, where it was one of the homage films to honour Huppert with Honorary Golden Bear for Lifetime Achievement.[38]

Reception[edit]

Critical response[edit]

Isabelle Huppert's performance garnered critical acclaim and she received an Academy Award nomination for Best Actress. She also won her first Golden Globe award for her performance in the film.

Elle received widespread critical acclaim, with particular praise for Huppert's performance and Verhoeven's direction.[5] On review aggregator Rotten Tomatoes, the film holds an approval rating of 91% based on 247 reviews, with an average rating of 8.00/10. The website's critical consensus says, "Elle finds director Paul Verhoeven operating at peak power—and benefiting from a typically outstanding performance from Isabelle Huppert in the central role."[39] At Metacritic, which assigns a normalized rating to reviews, the film received an average score of 89 out of 100, based on 36 critics, indicating "universal acclaim".[40]

The film received a seven-minute standing ovation at its Cannes Film Festival international premiere.[41] Leslie Felperin of The Hollywood Reporter called it "the most empowering 'Rape Movie' ever made," and wrote, "Paul Verhoeven's film about a woman's complicated response to being raped will draw ire from feminists and others, but it's one of the bravest, most honest and inspiring examinations of the subject ever put onscreen."[42] Stéphane Delorme of Cahiers du cinéma wrote the film was "a striking return for the Dutchman. We didn't dare dream of such an audacious, generous film."[43] Guy Lodge of Variety said, "Isabelle Huppert might be our best living actor, and Elle might be Paul Verhoeven's best film."[44][45] Eric Kohn of IndieWire described it as a "lighthearted rape-revenge story."[46] Jordan Mintzer of The Hollywood Reporter called the film a "tastefully twisted mid-to-late-life crisis thriller that's both lasciviously dark and rebelliously light on its feet" and added that Verhoeven and Huppert "combine their talents to make a film that hardly skimps on the sex, violence and sadism, yet ultimately tells a story about how one woman uses them all to set herself free."[47] Jason Gorber of Twitch Film thought the film was "a masterwork by a master filmmaker, while Huppert's performance reminds the world once again what a treasure she is."[48] Ben Croll of TheWrap believed the film was "riotously funny, and Isabelle Huppert has never been better."[49]

Christopher Hooton of The Independent said it was "Cannes' only real high point."[50] Xan Brooks of The Guardian found the film "utterly gripping and endlessly disturbing" and wrote, "Isabelle Huppert delivers a standout performance as a woman turning the tables on her attacker in the controversial director's electrifying and provocative comeback."[51] Lisa Nesselson of Screen Daily found that Huppert's "self-assured-and-aloof register is a perfect fit with Verhoeven's taste for far-fetched human behaviour presented as plausible," and described the film as "suspenseful and unsettling from first frame to last."[52] David Sexton of The Evening Standard labeled the film as "outrageous, funny and shocking, exhilarating and original."[53] Catherine Bray of Time Out wrote the film "might just be the most Paul Verhoeven film yet, due to its willingness to push buttons, explore transgressive territory and take constant delight in venturing where the vast majority of filmmakers would fear to tread" and predicted, "It's a film that will inspire debate for decades to come."[54]

Richard Brody of The New Yorker wrote, "Elle is no exploration of a woman's life or psyche but a macho fantasy adorned with the trappings of liberation."[55] Bidisha, writing in The Guardian, rounded on the film's racist humour and for perpetuating misogynistic stereotypes about domestic abuse and rape fantasies: "In a vicious insult to all survivors of men's sexual violence, the filmmakers have recast the perpetrator and his victim as being in some kind of relationship or affair driven by her masochism, in which his abusiveness is simply a necessary fuel... It's a classic, malicious lie: that rape awakens women's sexuality."[56]

Top ten lists[edit]

Elle was listed on numerous critics' top ten lists.[57]

Accolades[edit]

Huppert and Verhoeven at the 42nd César Awards

On 26 September 2016, the French National Center of Cinematography and the Moving Image selected Elle as the French entry for the Best Foreign Language Film at the 89th Academy Awards.[58] When the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences announced a shortlist of nine pictures competing for the category on 15 December 2016 that did not include Elle, many media, including The Hollywood Reporter,[59] The New York Times,[60] Entertainment Weekly,[61] The Independent [62] and The Guardian,[63] slammed Elle's omission as a "snub." Gregory Ellwood of The Playlist wrote that the film became "one of greatest Oscar Foreign Language Film Snubs of all-time."[64]

Award Date of ceremony Category Recipient(s) Result Ref(s)
AACTA International Awards 8 January 2017 Best Actress Isabelle Huppert Nominated [65]
AARP Annual Movies for Grownups Awards 6 February 2017 Best Actress Isabelle Huppert Nominated [66]
Best Foreign Language Film Elle Won
Academy Awards 26 February 2017 Best Actress Isabelle Huppert Nominated [67]
Alliance of Women Film Journalists 21 December 2016 Best Non-English-Language Film Elle Nominated [68]
Best Actress Isabelle Huppert Nominated
Actress Defying Age and Ageism Isabelle Huppert Won[a]
Bravest Performance Isabelle Huppert Won
Austin Film Critics Association 28 December 2016 Best Film Elle 6th Place [69]
Best Actress Isabelle Huppert Won
Best Foreign-Language Film Elle Nominated
Australian Film Critics Association 7 March 2017 Best International Film (Foreign Language) Elle Nominated [70]
Boston Society of Film Critics 11 December 2016 Best Actress Isabelle Huppert (also for Things to Come) Won [71]
British Academy Film Awards 18 February 2018 Best Film Not in the English Language Paul Verhoeven, Saïd Ben Saïd Nominated [72]
Cannes Film Festival 22 May 2016 Palme d'Or Paul Verhoeven Nominated [73]
César Awards 24 February 2017 Best Film Saïd Ben Saïd, Michel Merkt, Paul Verhoeven Won [74]
Best Director Paul Verhoeven Nominated
Best Actress Isabelle Huppert Won
Best Supporting Actor Laurent Lafitte Nominated
Best Supporting Actress Anne Consigny Nominated
Most Promising Actor Jonas Bloquet Nominated
Best Adaptation David Birke Nominated
Best Cinematography Stéphane Fontaine Nominated
Best Editing Job ter Burg Nominated
Best Original Music Anne Dudley Nominated
Best Sound Jean-Paul Mugel, Alexis Place, Cyril Holtz and Damien Lazzerini Nominated
Chicago Film Critics Association 15 December 2016 Best Actress Isabelle Huppert Nominated [75]
Best Adapted Screenplay David Birke Nominated
Best Foreign Language Film Elle Nominated
Critics' Choice Movie Awards 11 December 2016 Best Actress Isabelle Huppert Nominated [76]
Best Foreign Language Film Elle Won
Dorian Awards 26 January 2017 Film Performance of the Year — Actress Isabelle Huppert Nominated [77]
Foreign Language Film of the Year Elle Nominated
Dublin Film Critics' Circle 13 December 2017 Best Actress Isabelle Huppert Won[b] [78]
Best Director Paul Verhoeven 7th Place[c]
Ebertfest 22 April 2017 Golden Thumb Isabelle Huppert Won [79]
European Film Awards 10 December 2016 Best Film Elle Nominated [80]
Best Director Paul Verhoeven Nominated
Best Actress Isabelle Huppert Nominated
Florida Film Critics Circle 23 December 2016 Best Actress Isabelle Huppert Won [81]
Best Foreign Language Film Elle Won
Globes de Cristal Award 30 January 2017 Best Actress Isabelle Huppert Won [82]
Golden Globe Awards 8 January 2017 Best Actress – Motion Picture Drama Isabelle Huppert Won [83]
Best Foreign Language Film Elle Won
Gotham Awards 28 November 2016 Best Actress Isabelle Huppert Won [84]
Goya Awards 4 February 2017 Best European Film Elle Won [85]
Houston Film Critics Society 6 January 2017 Best Actress Isabelle Huppert Nominated [86]
Best Foreign Language Film Elle Nominated
Independent Spirit Awards 25 February 2017 Best Female Lead Isabelle Huppert Won [87]
IndieWire Critics Poll 19 December 2016 Best Actress Isabelle Huppert Won [88]
Best Director Paul Verhoeven 9th Place
London Film Critics' Circle 28 January 2018 Actress of the Year Isabelle Huppert Nominated [89]
Foreign Language Film of the Year Elle Won
London Film Festival 15 October 2016 Best Film Elle Nominated [90]
Los Angeles Film Critics Association 4 December 2016 Best Actress Isabelle Huppert (also for Things to Come) Won [91]
Lumières Awards 30 January 2017 Best Film Elle Won [92]
Best Director Paul Verhoeven Won
Best Actress Isabelle Huppert Won
Best Screenplay David Birke Nominated
Magritte Awards 4 February 2017 Best Supporting Actress Virginie Efira Nominated [93]
National Board of Review 29 November 2016 Top 5 Foreign Films Elle Won [94]
National Society of Film Critics 7 January 2017 Best Actress Isabelle Huppert (also for Things to Come) Won [95]
Best Foreign Language Film Elle 3rd Place[d]
New York Film Critics Circle 1 December 2016 Best Actress Isabelle Huppert (also for Things to Come) Won [96]
New York Film Critics Online 11 December 2016 Best Actress Isabelle Huppert Won [97]
Online Film Critics Society 3 January 2017 Best Actress Isabelle Huppert Nominated [98]
Best Adapted Screenplay David Birke, Philippe Djian Nominated
Best Film Not in the English Language Elle Nominated
Palm Springs International Film Festival 14 January 2017 FIPRESCI Prize for Best Actress in a Foreign Language Film Isabelle Huppert Won [99]
San Francisco Film Critics Circle 11 December 2016 Best Actress Isabelle Huppert Won [100][101]
Best Adapted Screenplay David Birke Nominated
Best Foreign Language Film Elle Nominated
Santa Barbara International Film Festival 8 February 2017 Montecito Award Isabelle Huppert Won [102]
Satellite Awards 19 February 2017 Best Actress Isabelle Huppert Won[e] [103]
Best Foreign Language Film Elle Nominated
Saturn Awards 28 June 2017 Best International Film Elle Nominated [104]
Seattle Film Critics Society 5 January 2017 Best Picture of the Year Elle Nominated [105]
[106]
Best Foreign Language Film Elle Won
Best Director Paul Verhoeven Nominated
Best Actress in a Leading Role Isabelle Huppert Won
St. Louis Film Critics Association 18 December 2016 Best Actress Isabelle Huppert Won [107]
Best Foreign Language Film Elle Won
Toronto Film Critics Association 11 December 2016 Best Actress Isabelle Huppert Runner-up [108]
Best Foreign Language Film Elle Runner-up
Vancouver Film Critics Circle 20 December 2016 Best Actress Isabelle Huppert Won [109]
Best Foreign-Language Film Elle Nominated
Village Voice Film Poll 21 December 2016 Best Actress Isabelle Huppert Won [110]
Washington D.C. Area Film Critics Association 5 December 2016 Best Foreign Language Film Elle Won [111]

Notes[edit]

  1. ^ Tied with Annette Bening for 20th Century Women
  2. ^ Tied with Natalie Portman for Jackie
  3. ^ Tied with Yorgos Lanthimos for The Killing of a Sacred Deer
  4. ^ Tied with Things to Come
  5. ^ Tied with Ruth Negga for Loving

See also[edit]

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