Inspired by director Catherine Breillat’s true life experiences, ABUSE OF WEAKNESS is an exploration of power and sex. Isabelle Huppert 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.
In French with English subtitles.