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Cast
- Isabelle HuppertMaud Schoenberg
- Kool ShenVilko Piran
- Laurence UrsinoAndy
- Christophe SermetEzzé
- Ronald LeclercqGino
- Fred LebelgePrésentateur TV
- Tristan SchotteAntoine
- Daphné BaiwirHortense
- Dimitri TomsejLouis
- Nicolas SteilPère de Louis
Recommendations
- 100
RogerEbert.com
This is a work just as startling and potent as anything she has done to date — a powerful example of art being used to exorcise personal demons that is anchored by two stunning performances and some of the most gripping moments to be seen in any film so far this year. - 90
Village Voice
Breillat's impressive film is a study of bodies and how we carry them, and it explores the manner in which weakness seeks out strength on an almost primal level, bypassing the higher modes of human thought. - 83
The Playlist
Abuse of Weakness is a frustrating experience, yet one that feels utterly unique and relentlessly watchable. - 80
Variety
Of all living actresses, only Huppert could capture nuances that alternately elicit sympathy and fierce sexual attraction to a recent stroke victim. - 80
The Hollywood Reporter
Like in all of the director’s work, psychologically reductive readings of the characters are absent, though intriguing performances give audiences a way into the material. - 75
Slant Magazine
Breillat's scripting of Maud as fatally distant from her family, willfully independent, but more believably abandoned, is haunting. - 75
New York Post
In Abuse of Weakness, Breillat, notorious for her sexually explicit films, casts the excellent Isabelle Huppert as her avatar, Maud, to tell the tale. - 75
Entertainment Weekly
Huppert is a wonder, inhabiting every iota of rage and froideur and helplessness; if only the movie's motives were as lucid as her performance.
