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Elle (2016)

★ 6.6 · 1,995 ratings on TMDB
Elle poster★ 6.6

When Michèle, the CEO of a gaming software company, is attacked in her home by an unknown assailant, she refuses to let it alter her precisely ordered life. She manages crises involving family, all the while becoming engaged in a game of cat and mouse with her stalker.

DirectorPaul Verhoeven
CastAlice Isaaz, Anne Consigny, Charles Berling, Christian Berkel, Isabelle Huppert, Jonas Bloquet
GenresDrama, Thriller
The emergence reading

Elle keeps every mind human — it fights its subject at zero distance. The story fights on E8/E9 of the E0–E14 reality ladder.

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