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  • Starring: Anaïs Demoustier, Joanna Kulig, Juliette Binoche, Louis-Do de Lencquesaing
  • Summary: A provocative exploration of female sexuality, Elles stars the fearless Juliette Binoche as Anne, a well-off Parisian journalist investigating the lives of two student prostitutes for a magazine article. What begins as a routine assignment, though, quickly turns personal, as Anne is drawn into the lives of these fiercely independent young women and forced to confront her own sexual fears and desires. (Kino Lorber)… Expand

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  1. Positive: 4 out of 17
  2. Mixed: 12 out of 17
  3. Negative: 1 out of 17
  1. NPR
    Reviewed by: Mark Jenkins
    Apr 27, 2012
    70
    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 Eastern Europe remains a timely topic.
  2. Time Out New York
    Reviewed by: David Fear
    Apr 24, 2012
    60
    Titillation and tentative stabs at gender studies do not a cogent cri de coeur make. It's simply a provocation that's all hopped up with nowhere to go.
  3. Los Angeles Times
    Reviewed by: Mark Olsen
    Apr 26, 2012
    60
    It's tempting to call Elles some kind of thinking-person's sex movie, but it's more about thinking and about sex (and thinking about sex) and is far more likely to encourage awkward, emphatic conversation than post-show friskiness.
  4. Washington Post
    Reviewed by: Michael O'Sullivan
    Apr 27, 2012
    38
    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 movie - and its placard-sized message - that is more two-dimensional.

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