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The director of this film cited Saló and In The Realm of the Senses as the only films that eliminate the vulgarity of sexually explicit scenes through higher aesthetic achievement while discussing the long takes he used in this film, particularly for a scene where the protagonist vomits in a closet after trying to initiate sex at an ice rink. The protagonist of this film (15[2])hides glass shards (15[1])in a young woman’s (*) coat pocket, causing her to slice her hand open and rendering her unable to perform (10[1])at a concert. This film ends with the protagonist stabbing herself in the shoulder with a kitchen knife after being shrugged off by the man who had brutally assaulted her the previous night. Isabelle Huppert stars in, for 10 points, what 2001 Michele Haneke adaptation of an Elfriede Jelinek novel about an extremely repressed woman with sadomasochistic urges? ■END■

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