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Inspired by director Catherine Breillat’s (FAT GIRL, ROMANCE) true life experiences, ABUSE 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’s manipulative charm as their parasitic relationship hurdles out of control.
- Year2014
- Runtime105'
- LanguageFrench
- CountryFrance
- NoteIn French with English subtitles
- DirectorCatherine Breillat
- ScreenwriterCatherine Breillat
- CastIsabelle Huppert, Kool Shen, Laurence Ursino, Christopher Sermet, Ronald Leclercq

A Strand Releasing release
Inspired by director Catherine Breillat’s (FAT GIRL, ROMANCE) true life experiences, ABUSE 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’s manipulative charm as their parasitic relationship hurdles out of control.
- Year2014
- Runtime105'
- LanguageFrench
- CountryFrance
- NoteIn French with English subtitles
- DirectorCatherine Breillat
- ScreenwriterCatherine Breillat
- CastIsabelle Huppert, Kool Shen, Laurence Ursino, Christopher Sermet, Ronald Leclercq