In Disturbing “Elle,” Isabelle Huppert, As Always, Mesmerizes

Elle (Paul Verhoeven, 2016) Now 78, Dutch filmmaker Paul Verhoeven has long since graduated beyond enfant terrible, if that moniker were ever actually suitable for a director more exploitative than avant-garde. Best known as the creator of violent, sexual, and sexually violent thrillers of the 1980s and ’90s such as Robocop (1987), Total Recall (1990), and … Continue reading In Disturbing “Elle,” Isabelle Huppert, As Always, Mesmerizes