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Elles (2011)

dir: Malgorzata Szumowska

An investigation of young female students turning to prostitution in order to fund their university studies.

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joseborjajimenezocana joseborjajimenezocana rated Elles

4 stars

vintitres vintitres rated Elles

7 stars

Ben Ben rated Elles

4 stars

Ben Ben rated Elles

5 stars

mick-lasalle mick-lasalle added a review of Elles

Elles has about half of a story stretched to feature length, and it manages to end just as a good story might have been kicking in. But that is often the way with foreign cinema: The Euro... Read the review

mick-lasalle mick-lasalle rated Elles

5 stars

ty-burr ty-burr added a review of Elles

Both provocative and muddled, the film's a moody, passive-aggressive tract that's buoyed by superior performances and sunk by its own uncertainties. An alternate title might be "The Joyle... Read the review

ty-burr ty-burr rated Elles

5 stars

pivic pivic wrote about Elles (7)

Elegantly and intelligently edited, directed and acted film where Binoche plays a grown-up woman with intense personal problems who interviews young women who prostitute themselves, all for a magazine article. Some of the classical music was very in-your-face but the scene where The Knife's "Pass It On" was played, I liked. All in all it paints a portrait on some complexities of life that I haven't seen before.

7 stars

mark-jenkins mark-jenkins added a review of Elles

Yet Elles has contemporary pertinence. As the Dominique Strauss-Kahn affair showed, feminism hasn't significantly mellowed France's macho culture. And sexual predation on young women from... Read the review

mark-jenkins mark-jenkins rated Elles

7 stars

joe-williams joe-williams added a review of Elles

Elles is provocative company, but it leaves us feeling hustled. Read the review

joe-williams joe-williams rated Elles

7 stars

michael-osullivan michael-osullivan added a review of Elles

The acting by Binoche and her two young co-stars is more nuanced than the film deserves. They bring a rich expressiveness and sense of complex inner life to their characters. It's the mov... Read the review

michael-osullivan michael-osullivan rated Elles

4 stars

stephen-holden stephen-holden added a review of Elles

In case you have forgotten, all women are prostitutes, and all men are johns. Read the review

stephen-holden stephen-holden rated Elles

5 stars

va-musetto va-musetto added a review of Elles

Szumowska provides lurid scenes of perverted sex, but she offers no new insight into the sordid world of prostitution and the dangers sex workers face. Nor does she flesh out Charlotte an... Read the review

va-musetto va-musetto rated Elles

5 stars

rob-nelson rob-nelson added a review of Elles

A typically smart performance by Juliette Binoche isn't enough to keep Elles from drowning in pseudo-intellectual pretension and general banality. Read the review

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