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ELLE Triumph & Perversion Where Does Triumph Come In?

ELLE
Trauma & Perversion
Where Does Triumph Come In?

April 19, 2017 by Dr. Sandra E. Cohen

Trauma. We know it. We experience it. We’re left with its aftermath – when Director Paul Verhoeven’s “noir thriller,” Elle, careens to its conclusion. Leaving the theater, my mind was spinning.  As Verhoeven says, the film has: “an enormous amount of ambiguity, gaps that are in the narrative on purpose for the audience to fill in.” …

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Where Does Triumph Come In?

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