Abus de faiblesse

Based on a real life event of director’s Catherine Breillat, Isabelle Huppert plays filmmaker Maud who after a brain haemorrhage, wakes up paralysed on one side of her body. Bedridden but determined to pursue her latest film project she stumbles upon Vilko, a con man who swindles celebrities. He is arrogant, magnetic and mesmerising and Maud wants him for her new film. Maud is a victim of his abuse of weakness.