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| 2014\u00a0 – 105′ –\u00a0 Drama – <\/p>\n Inspired by director Catherine Breillat\u2019s (FAT GIRL, ROMANCE) true life experiences,\u00a0ABUSE OF WEAKNESS, is an exploration of power and sex. Isabelle Huppert (THE PIANO TEACHER, 8 WOMEN) stars as Maud, a strong willed filmmaker who suffers a stroke. Bedridden, but determined to pursue her latest film project, she sees Vilko (Kool Shen), a con man who swindles celebrities, on a TV talk show. Interested in him for her new film, the two meet and Maud soon finds herself falling for Vilko\u2019s manipulative charm as their parasitic relationship hurdles out of control.<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n <\/p>\n ABUSE OF WEAKNESS | 2014\u00a0 – 105′ –\u00a0 Drama – Written and\u00a0Directed by Catherine Breillat. Starring Isabelle Huppert, Kool Shen, Laurence Ursino, Christopher Sermet, Ronald Leclercq. Official Selections: Toronto International Film Festival, New York International Film Festival. Official Competition\u00a0COLCOA 2014. In French with English subtitles. A Strand Releasing release.| Inspired by director Catherine Breillat\u2019s […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":8695,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[95,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8694","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-tafff","category-drama"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theamericanfrenchfilmfestival.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8694","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theamericanfrenchfilmfestival.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theamericanfrenchfilmfestival.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theamericanfrenchfilmfestival.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theamericanfrenchfilmfestival.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8694"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/theamericanfrenchfilmfestival.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8694\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17862,"href":"https:\/\/theamericanfrenchfilmfestival.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8694\/revisions\/17862"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theamericanfrenchfilmfestival.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8695"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theamericanfrenchfilmfestival.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8694"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theamericanfrenchfilmfestival.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8694"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theamericanfrenchfilmfestival.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8694"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nWritten and\u00a0Directed by Catherine Breillat.
\nStarring Isabelle Huppert, Kool Shen, Laurence Ursino, Christopher Sermet, Ronald Leclercq.
\nOfficial Selections: Toronto International Film Festival, New York International Film Festival.
\nOfficial Competition\u00a0COLCOA 2014.<\/b>
\nIn French with English subtitles.
\nA Strand Releasing release.|<\/span><\/p>\nWatch now<\/a><\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"