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Abuse of Weakness
Directed by
Catherine Breillat
Not Rated
2013
1h 44m
Drama
5.9
86%
52%
5.2
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A stroke-afflicted filmmaker is manipulated by a notorious con man.
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Cast of Abuse of Weakness
Isabelle Huppert
Maud Schoenberg
Kool Shen
Vilko Piran
Laurence Ursino
Andy
Christophe Sermet
Ezzé
Ronald Leclercq
Gino
Fred Lebelge
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Tristan Schotte
Antoine
Daphné Baiwir
Hortense
Dimitri Tomsej
Louis
Nicolas Steil
Père de Louis / Co-Producer
Jean-François Lepetit
Jean-Paul / Producer
Marc de Bodin de Galembert
Avocat
Patrick Van Ackere
Kiné
François Stockmans
Professeur
Valérie Chavet
Orthophoniste
Ismaël Villar Bonilla
Ambulancier
Valérie Azura
Attachée de Presse
Axelle Beerens
Orthopédiste
Andrée Cambier
Grane
Jean-Pierre Denuit
Huissier
Abuse of Weakness Ratings & Reviews
San Francisco Chronicle
Mick LaSalle
"Abuse of Weakness" is 20 minutes of a great movie and another 85 minutes of nothing much.
Film Comment Magazine
Jonathan Romney
Shot with clean, spare simplicity by the Dardennes' regular DP Alain Marcoen, this is a very simple work, almost prosaically so at times-as if Breillat wanted to purge the film of anything that wasn't strictly to the point.
Los Angeles Times
Sheri Linden
With clinical dispassion and narrative elegance, Breillat has constructed what she calls "a thriller about denial."
Boston Globe
Peter Keough
The film's title refers to the French legal term for taking advantage of a person of diminished capacity. The story, though, suggests other interpretations.
AV Club
Mike D'Angelo
As a portrait of what it's like to be suddenly helpless, Abuse Of Weakness is never less than fascinating ...
RogerEbert.com
Peter Sobczynski
This examination of power, greed, emotional manipulation and simple need is gripping and powerful to behold even if you don't know the story behind the story.
New York Times
Stephen Holden
[A] chilly, dark portrait of two control freaks locking horns.
Blu-ray.com
Brian Orndorf
Huppert's performance single-handedly preserves interest in Abuse of Weakness, elevating the picture's askew mystery with a valuable sense of determination and, at times, despair.
New York Daily News
Elizabeth Weitzman
Breillat's self-conscious refusal to establish a realistic basis for this deeply mismatched relationship winds up weakening the film irreparably.
Baret News
Kam Williams
A cautionary tale depicting a shocking example of man's inhumanity to (wo)man.
New York Post
Sara Stewart
The plot, though never less than engaging, occasionally tests believability - until you remember it's drawn from Breillat's life.
The Dissolve
Scott Tobias
Abuse Of Weakness is the director's attempt to account for actions that seem inexplicable, and make the audience understand and sympathize in kind.
Village Voice
Zachary Wigon
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.
Film Comment Magazine
Kristin M. Jones
It's hard to imagine an actress other than Huppert so artfully layering frailty and toughness, self-delusion and self-awareness, and her complex portrayal is an irresistible foil to Kool Shen's blank expressions and wounded swagger.
Reeling Reviews
Laura Clifford
The entire film has an underlying S&M theme that is more potent than Maud's final interpretation of her own behavior.
Nonfics (Substack)
Daniel Walber
Somehow both a fiery work of conviction and an insecure, open-ended question
Slant Magazine
Ela Bittencourt
Catherine Breillat's scripting of Maud as fatally distant from her family, willfully independent, but more believably abandoned, is haunting.
AV Club
Ben Kenigsberg
The movie is interesting to think about as another of the Anatomy Of Hell director's power-struggle portraits, even if its conceit-by design-leaves the question of how the filmmaker allowed a known operator to bilk her out of so much money unresolved.
The Hollywood Reporter
Boyd van Hoeij
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.
Variety
Peter Debruge
Catherine Breillat's films have always been autobiographical, often painfully so, and yet "Abuse of Weakness" cuts even closer to the marrow than the rest.
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