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Abuse of Weakness
Abuse of Weakness
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ABUSE OF WEAKNESS

Abus de faiblesse

Directed by Catherine Breillat
France, Germany, 2013
Drama

Synopsis

Maud is a strong willed filmmaker who suffers a stroke. Bedridden but determined to pursue her latest film project, she meets Vilko, a con man who sindles celebrities, and soon finds herself falling for his manipulative charm as their parasitic relationship hurdles out of control.

Synopsis

Maud is a strong willed filmmaker who suffers a stroke. Bedridden but determined to pursue her latest film project, she meets Vilko, a con man who sindles celebrities, and soon finds herself falling for his manipulative charm as their parasitic relationship hurdles out of control.

Our take

Bravely unadorned, this is a unique collaboration between provocative auteur Catherine Breillant and the great actor Isabelle Huppert. In it, a director exposes the story of her own infirmity and a later, grave mistake, in a hard-boiled film that teems with psychosexual mystery.