2011 · drama · music
Elles
Directed by Małgorzata Szumowska1h 36m2011
A journalist tries to balance the duties of marriage and motherhood while researching a piece on college women who work as prostitutes to pay their tuition.
Our read: Elles (2011) reads as a sombre, measured, grounded drama · music entry — measured in intensity, intimate in scope, cold in temperature, nihilistic in outlook.
Sombre, measured, measured drama / music, grounded in texture. Nihilistic, intimate, cold.
- sombre
- measured
- cold
- intimate
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How Elles feels to watch.
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What watching it is actually like.
“You want Binoche confronting student sex work and her own stalled desire.”
Skip it tonight — Skip if explicit sex scenes and marital unease will make the room awkward.
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