SummaryIn 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... Read More
Directed By:Jeanne Labrune
Written By:Richard Debuisne, Jeanne Labrune
Special Treatment
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45% Positive
5 Reviews
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Sep 15, 2011
80
Special Treatment is a serious film, but Labrune allows a touch of dark comedy in her depictions of Alice's clients and Xavier's patients.
Oct 6, 2011
70
Though the parallels drawn between therapy and prostitution grow tiresome, the duo's interaction is peppered with inspired comedic moments.
Aug 24, 2011
67
French drama Special Treatment draws a brazenly provocative parallel between the professions of psychiatry and prostitution.
Aug 23, 2011
50
That's why Special Treatment is so disheartening. The film, starring Huppert, quickly telegraphs that its ideas are too shallow for a talent as deep as hers.
Aug 25, 2011
40
A story that should have been a taut poker-faced French farce that pushed its premise to the brink of absurdity stalls, unsure of its balance between comedy and drama. The movie's one reliable constant is Ms. Huppert. You can't take your eyes off her, even when she is misused and misdirected.
Aug 24, 2011
40
Director Jeanne Labrune (Vatel) makes the most out of having a compellingly watchable movie star at her disposal, but neither some odd stabs at humor nor Huppert's versatility do much to enliven what's essentially a superficially sexed-up soufflé.
Aug 26, 2011
20
As clichés trot through their sessions - it's like "In Treatment" as bedroom farce - we check out. Huppert, though, is as fearless as ever.
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Production Company:
- Liaison Cinématographique
- Samsa Film
- Artémis Productions
- Art-Light Productions
- Canal+
- CinéCinéma
- Fonds National de Soutien à la Production Audiovisuelle du Luxembourg
- Région Wallone
- Bruxelles Capitale
- MEDIA Programme of the European Union
- Banque Postale Image 3, La
- Banque Populaire Images 10
- Soficinéma 6
- Taxshelter. be
- Radio Télévision Belge Francophone (RTBF)
Release Date:Aug 26, 2011
Duration:1 h 35 m
