{"id":123257,"date":"2016-11-11T12:04:43","date_gmt":"2016-11-11T17:04:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/?p=123257"},"modified":"2022-09-30T11:26:05","modified_gmt":"2022-09-30T15:26:05","slug":"elle-2016-d-paul-verhoeven","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/?p=123257","title":{"rendered":"Review: <i>Elle<\/i> (2016); d. Paul Verhoeven"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/?attachment_id=123263\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-123263\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/large_elle_ver2.jpg\" alt=\"large_elle_ver2\" width=\"400\" height=\"591\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-123263\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/large_elle_ver2.jpg 400w, https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/large_elle_ver2-68x100.jpg 68w, https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/large_elle_ver2-135x200.jpg 135w, https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/large_elle_ver2-271x400.jpg 271w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>\nOh, <i>Elle<\/i>. Where have you been all my life? I&#8217;ve seen it twice (so far). It&#8217;s a rape-revenge thriller and it&#8217;s also &#8230; a comedy? As in &#8230; really really funny. Many people will despise it for that reason. Or be outraged (if the Tweets of people coming out of the screenings at NYFF are any indication). I disagree strongly with many of the outraged critiques I&#8217;ve seen thus far. <\/p>\n<p>And Isabelle Huppert! Always a favorite of mine, this performance is one of her very best. Thank you, Paul Verhoeven.  <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.rogerebert.com\/reviews\/elle-2016\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">My 4-star review of <i>Elle<\/i> is now up at Rogerebert.com. <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Oh, Elle. Where have you been all my life? I&#8217;ve seen it twice (so far). It&#8217;s a rape-revenge thriller and it&#8217;s also &#8230; a comedy? As in &#8230; really really funny. Many people will despise it for that reason. Or &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/?p=123257\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4],"tags":[2206,2480,2504,2668,2559],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/123257"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=123257"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/123257\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":148019,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/123257\/revisions\/148019"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=123257"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=123257"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=123257"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}