Elles
The world's oldest profession still has its secrets.
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DVD Details
- Rated: Not Rated
- Run Time: 1 hours, 39 minutes
- Video: Color
- Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
- Released: September 11, 2012
- Originally Released: 2011
- Label: Lorber Films (Kino)
Performers, Cast and Crew:
Starring | Juliette Binoche, Anaïs Demoustier, Joanna Kulig, Jean-Marie Binoche, Andrzej Chyra, Louis-Dominique deLencquesaing, Krystyna Janda & Ali Marhyar | |
Directed by | Malgoska Szumowska | |
Screenwriting by | Tine Byrckel & Malgoska Szumowska | |
Composition by | Pawel Mykietyn | |
Director of Photography: | Michal Englert |
Entertainment Reviews:
3 stars out of 5 -- It's a small and confined little film, but Szumowska's pointed direction, her immaculate cast and the suggestive cinematography of Michal Englart help the movie to feel as large as its ideas.
Box Office
Rating: 1.5/4 --
This is not an entirely new idea. Nor does "Elles" offer any new insights into either domestic slavery or sex work. But it does offer a lot of sex, which for some will be just fine.
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Newsday
3 stars out of 5 -- Binoche is, as always, superb...
Total Film
You could hardly think of a racier subject and a more meandering, listless movie.
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Bangkok Post
Writer-director Malgorzata Szumowska breaks past the facile moralizing only once.
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Chicago Reader
Rating: 2/4 --
Both provocative and muddled, the film's a moody, passive-aggressive tract that's buoyed by superior performances and sunk by its own uncertainties.
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Boston Globe
Rating: 3/5 --
Some of the dialogue shared between the characters in Elles is undeniably unnerving.
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CineVue
Product Description:
A writer is given a new perspective on her life by two women she initially imagines could not be more different than her in this drama from filmmaker Malgoska Szumowska. Anne (Juliette Binoche) is a wife and mother who maintains a busy schedule looking after her youngest son, who is obsessed with video games, her teenage son (Francois Civil), who spends much of his time stoned on marijuana, and her aging father (Jean-Marie Binoche) whose health is failing. Anne's husband (Louis-Do de Lencquesaing) is too preoccupied with his own career to worry about the household chores, and she has to juggle it all while keeping up with her work as a journalist. Anne is researching a magazine piece about prostitutes, and she's been conducting extensive interviews with Alicja (Joanna Kulig) and Charlotte (Anais Demoustier), both of whom are attractive, well-adjusted women in their early twenties who have turned to sex work to support themselves. As Anne develops a greater understanding of Alicja and Charlotte's lives and work, she sees a contrast in the way the younger women have chosen a trade that, despite its reputation, affords them freedom while Anne's personal and professional life have become something of a trap. ELLES was an official selection at the 2011 Toronto International Film Festival.
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- Sales Rank: 67,436
- UPC: 738329087029
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