A journalist tries to balance the duties of marriage and motherhood while researching a piece on college women who work as prostitutes to pay their tuition.
Binoche is the disappointment. More than half the problem is that the script, co-written by the director, gives her little to do but fret and mope.
– Mick LaSalle,
San Francisco Chronicle,
17 May 2012
rotten:
"Elles" has a surprisingly deep performance in a disappointingly shallow movie.
– Roger Ebert,
Chicago Sun-Times,
7 Jun 2012
rotten:
Writer-director Malgorzata Szumowska breaks past the facile moralizing only once.
– J. R. Jones,
Chicago Reader,
7 Jun 2012
rotten:
This Paris-based film from Polish director Malgorzata Szumowska is a fairly unengaging journalism procedural shellacked with a veneer of elliptical, complicated symbolism.