Elle won the Golden Globe Award for Best Foreign Language Film and Critics' Choice Movie Award for Best Foreign Language Film it was also selected as the French entry for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film, but was not nominated. It premiered in competition for the Palme d'Or at the 2016 Cannes Film Festival where it received critical acclaim.
The film is Verhoeven's first feature since 2006's Black Book, and his first in the French language. The film stars Isabelle Huppert as a businesswoman who is raped in her home by a masked assailant and decides not to report it due to her past experience with police. Djian's novel was released in 2012 and received the Prix Interallié (National Literary Award). Elle ( French for 'she' or 'her') is a 2016 thriller film directed by Paul Verhoeven and written by David Birke, based on the novel Oh.
