Rotten
This Paris-based film from Polish director Malgorzata Szumowska is a fairly unengaging journalism procedural shellacked with a veneer of elliptical, complicated symbolism.
Colin Covert, Minneapolis Star Tribune
Elles
The world's oldest profession still has its secrets.
2011 · 1h 36m
Drama
Directed by
Małgorzata Szumowska
Overview
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.
Director and cast
- Małgorzata Szumowska Director
- Juliette Binoche as Anne
- Anaïs Demoustier as Charlotte
- Joanna Kulig as Alicja
- Louis-Do de Lencquesaing as Patrick
- Krystyna Janda as Mutter
- Andrzej Chyra as Sadist client
- Ali Marhyar as Saïd
- François Civil as Florent
- Jean-Marie Binoche as Le père d'Anne
- Pablo Beugnet Cast
Critics on Rotten Tomatoes
Top critics, in their words
Rotten
Writer-director Malgorzata Szumowska breaks past the facile moralizing only once.
J. R. Jones, Chicago Reader
Rotten
"Elles" has a surprisingly deep performance in a disappointingly shallow movie.
Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times
Rotten
Binoche is the disappointment. More than half the problem is that the script, co-written by the director, gives her little to do but fret and mope.
Mick LaSalle, San Francisco Chronicle
Rotten
One of her (Binoche's) lesser choices.
Stanley Kauffmann, The New Republic
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