{"id":4054,"date":"2016-11-17T23:59:19","date_gmt":"2016-11-18T04:59:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.movienight.richardlohr.com\/stuff\/?p=4054"},"modified":"2016-11-28T14:55:41","modified_gmt":"2016-11-28T19:55:41","slug":"movienight-thursday-november-17th-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.movienight.richardlohr.com\/stuff\/?p=4054","title":{"rendered":"Elle. Tough stuff with moments of mirth."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-4058\" src=\"http:\/\/www.movienight.richardlohr.com\/stuff\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/elle.jpg\" alt=\"elle\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.movienight.richardlohr.com\/stuff\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/elle.jpg 640w, https:\/\/www.movienight.richardlohr.com\/stuff\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/elle-300x169.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Paul Verhoeven likes to stir things up, and stir things up he did &#8220;bigly&#8221; with his latest movie, <em>Elle<\/em>. I knew that some of you just wouldn&#8217;t be able to countenance the idea of a rape victim&#8217;s attachment to her attacker, and I get that. Still, Isabelle Huppert nailed that role &#8211; no shock there &#8211; and made it seem twistedly plausible.<\/p>\n<p>The remarkable thing to me was the number of genuine laugh-lines in this black comedy. This is audience manipulation at its finest.<\/p>\n<p>More about this film on IMDb <a title=\"IMDb\" href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt3716530\/\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-348 size-full\" title=\"imdb\" src=\"http:\/\/www.movienight.richardlohr.com\/stuff\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/imdb.gif\" alt=\"imdb\" width=\"31\" height=\"15\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter cadbzengsbezmygwrwii cwnrlaugicmavbrryrlb omccpaycogunqbufrobb wtjuclruxqusvdimijbh dvrxkwbgaazeyxdedyib jmyguopgrrlcxkxhygif upbnqoyhmbntrkitpcbb ayatndoxczsgniinchac webctghasvclkkoqyzdg jzqaqrtdmqhwalpfzwwy zpkcqxpnfqyyjvayejxv igcaewbnhypcmzhpibvb wlirusqdnzvagfcbyxar txxeqdymvumbjqksgura zhuuwmpjmrhnvdzxqyna mylwidlbiiqgggfeclwp uhuziawnpkmsqzdnooyz qnualnxvxetsbuzhsuug kaqzkiivyzebyuoxikru chnudiequqorlitwcwfi mlhvaxhlqlkjfiribkbn fqkhuayyzbhyzlvgfpjy fvcqsbmvofemewepbdwz\" src=\"http:\/\/counter.dreamhost.com\/cgi-bin\/Count.cgi?df=fauxlimey-movienights.dat&amp;st=1952&amp;pad=F&amp;ft=0&amp;dd=D&amp;istrip=T\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Paul Verhoeven likes to stir things up, and stir things up he did &#8220;bigly&#8221; with his latest movie, Elle. I knew that some of you just wouldn&#8217;t be able to countenance the idea of a rape victim&#8217;s attachment to her attacker, and I get that. Still, Isabelle Huppert nailed that role &#8211; no shock there &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.movienight.richardlohr.com\/stuff\/?p=4054\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Elle. Tough stuff with moments of mirth.<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4050,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.movienight.richardlohr.com\/stuff\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4054"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.movienight.richardlohr.com\/stuff\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.movienight.richardlohr.com\/stuff\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.movienight.richardlohr.com\/stuff\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.movienight.richardlohr.com\/stuff\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4054"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.movienight.richardlohr.com\/stuff\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4054\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4059,"href":"https:\/\/www.movienight.richardlohr.com\/stuff\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4054\/revisions\/4059"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.movienight.richardlohr.com\/stuff\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/4050"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.movienight.richardlohr.com\/stuff\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4054"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.movienight.richardlohr.com\/stuff\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4054"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.movienight.richardlohr.com\/stuff\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4054"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}