Isabelle Huppert is currently in her early 60s, and if I may so, she still looks magnificently sensuous. As a successful Parisian, head of a video game company, she is a middle-aged nymphomaniac the likes we've seldom seen before. But after she gets assaulted and raped by a mysterious man wearing a ski mask in her own home, she proceeds to show... no trauma or ill effects whatsoever. Director Paul Verhoeven has visited similar territory with 1992's Basic Instinct, where we also saw a very sexually charged heroine get her way with men and the corporate ladder. The final act, at least for me, is a bit preposterous, because once the identity of the rapist is no longer a mystery, the climax is tedious. Still, Elle possesses enough intrigue, eroticism and fine performances to be completely worth its (somewhat excessive) hundred-and-thirty-minute running time.
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