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Isabelle (2011)
Director: Ben Sombogaart
Cast: Halina Reijn, Tineke Caels, Wim Opbrouck, Edwin de Vries
Runtime93 min
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Isabelle is a famous and beloved actress from the Netherlands, who disappears when on Holiday in Belgium. She has been kidnapped by bartender Jeanne Bitor, an artist with a disfigured face. Jeanne is very bitter about her 'ugly' appearance, and she is obsessed with the process of dying and deterioration of animals and humans. Therefore, she abducts Isabelle and starves her to death, while painting her in different phases of the process.
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Isabelle is a captivating thriller that explores the dark obsession of a disfigured artist who kidnaps and torments a famous Dutch actress. Director Ben Sombogaart's gripping psychological drama delves into themes of identity, beauty, and mortality through the lens of the chilling cat-and-mouse game between the two lead actresses.
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Isabelle is a 2011 Dutch psychological thriller film directed by Ben Sombogaart and written for the screen by Marieke van der Pol based on the novel of the same name by Tessa de Loo. It stars Halina Reijn as the beautiful actress Isabelle that is kidnapped by the jealous disfigured artist Jeanne, played by Tineke Caels. It also stars Wim Opbrouck, Barbara Sarafian, Michel Van Dousselaere and Monique van de Ven.
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