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Wonderful, insightful, engrossing and, finally, very moving.
Jeanne Labrunne
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Special Treatment
In this darkly erotic drama from cult filmmaker Jeanne Labrune, Isabelle Huppert stars as a high-class prostitute named Alice. Fed up with the seamy underbelly of French masculinity, Alice crosses paths with Xavier, a neurotic psychoanalyst facing a marriage crisis. The two...Watch Movie
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Implosive exploration of sex, religion, money, interpersonal power politics. Rather than unnecessary conclusions, an 'unbearable lightness of being'. The work of La Troupe des Pelerins de Namur revitalizes the final...
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Jeanne Labrune's film never really takes us anywhere new. However she has a very valuable player in Ms. Huppert. The actress breathes a loneliness and desperation into her performance that...
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Entertaining without being overly dramatic and tragic, this film draws a comparison between psychoanalysis and prostitution. But also, it really makes us look at anything we engage in to escape,...
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