Special Treatment
It isn't a lightweight erotic romp at all, but a complicated and delicate two-person odyssey that's much richer and subtler than that.
Special Treatment
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 marriage crisis. The two quickly realize their professions share a thing or two in common as they navigate the overlapping worlds of psychotherapy and sex therapy.
Genre
Dark comedy,
Erotica
Web Site
Runtime
95
Language
French
Director
Jeanne Labrune
Cast
Isabelle Huppert,
Bouli Lanners
FEATURED REVIEW
Kevin Thomas, Los Angeles Times
Writer-director Jeanne Labrune affords Isabelle Huppert, arguably the finest French screen actress of her generation, yet another splendid role in the complex, compassionate and endlessly illuminating "Special Treatment."Huppert plays Alice, an art history major who years ago became a high-priced ...
Played at
Monica Film Center 9.16.11 - 9.22.11
Lumiere Music Hall 9.23.11 - 9.29.11
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