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  • 2011
  • Unrated
  • First Run Features
  • 1 h 35 m
  • 2011
  • Unrated
  • First Run Features
  • 1 h 35 m

Summary In this darkly erotic drama from cult filmmaker Jeanne Labrune, Isabelle Huppert stars as a high-class prostitute named Alice who serves up sexual fantasies for her clientele, from schoolgirl innocence to S&M. Fed up with the seamy underbelly of French masculinity, Alice crosses paths with Xavier, a neurotic psychoanalyst facing a marria...

Directed By: Jeanne Labrune

Written By: Richard Debuisne, Jeanne Labrune

  • 2011
  • Unrated
  • First Run Features
  • 1 h 35 m
  • 2011
  • Unrated
  • First Run Features
  • 1 h 35 m

Special Treatment

Metascore Mixed or Average Based on 11 Critic Reviews
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Summary In this darkly erotic drama from cult filmmaker Jeanne Labrune, Isabelle Huppert stars as a high-class prostitute named Alice who serves up sexual fantasies for her clientele, from schoolgirl innocence to S&M. Fed up with the seamy underbelly of French masculinity, Alice crosses paths with Xavier, a neurotic psychoanalyst facing a marria...

Directed By: Jeanne Labrune

Written By: Richard Debuisne, Jeanne Labrune

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Metascore
Mixed or Average Based on 11 Critic Reviews
49
45% Positive
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45% Mixed
5 Reviews
9% Negative
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Mixed or Average Based on 11 Critic Reviews
49
45% Positive
5 Reviews
45% Mixed
5 Reviews
9% Negative
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80
Sep 15, 2011
Special Treatment is a serious film, but Labrune allows a touch of dark comedy in her depictions of Alice's clients and Xavier's patients.
By Kevin Thomas FULL REVIEW
70
Oct 6, 2011
Though the parallels drawn between therapy and prostitution grow tiresome, the duo's interaction is peppered with inspired comedic moments.
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67
Aug 24, 2011
French drama Special Treatment draws a brazenly provocative parallel between the professions of psychiatry and prostitution.
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50
Aug 23, 2011
That's why Special Treatment is so disheartening. The film, starring Huppert, quickly telegraphs that its ideas are too shallow for a talent as deep as hers.
By Ernest Hardy FULL REVIEW
40
Aug 25, 2011
A story that should have been a taut poker-faced French farce that pushed its premise to the brink of absurdity stalls, unsure of its balance between comedy and drama. The movie's one reliable constant is Ms. Huppert. You can't take your eyes off her, even when she is misused and misdirected.
By Stephen Holden FULL REVIEW
40
Aug 24, 2011
Director Jeanne Labrune (Vatel) makes the most out of having a compellingly watchable movie star at her disposal, but neither some odd stabs at humor nor Huppert's versatility do much to enliven what's essentially a superficially sexed-up soufflé.
By David Fear FULL REVIEW
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Aug 26, 2011
As clichés trot through their sessions - it's like "In Treatment" as bedroom farce - we check out. Huppert, though, is as fearless as ever.
By Joe Neumaier FULL REVIEW

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Production Company Liaison Cinématographique, Samsa Film, Artémis Productions, Art-Light Productions, Canal+, CinéCinéma, Fonds National de Soutien à la Production Audiovisuelle du Luxembourg, Région Wallone, Bruxelles Capitale, MEDIA Programme of the European Union, Banque Postale Image 3, La, Banque Populaire Images 10, Soficinéma 6, Taxshelter. be, Radio Télévision Belge Francophone (RTBF)
Release Date Aug 26, 2011
Duration 1 h 35 m
Rating Unrated
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Website http://www.rezofilms.com/distribution/sans-queue-ni-tete
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