Isabelle Huppert is
an aging prostitute who specializes in fantasy fulfillment for an upscale
Parisian clientele. Bouli Lanners
is an aging psychoanalyst who specializes in sitting out of his upscale Parisian
patients’ sight lines and saying nearly nothing at all. Their ennui is palpable, and Special Treatment underlines it with a
score that seems to have been written entirely in a minor key and played by a
cellist whose dog just died.
Great. An hour and a half of ennui among the
Parisian professional class. If I
wanted 90 minutes of ennui, I’d have lunch with coworkers from my former
(office) job. At least they told
jokes.
Yes, the characters’
lives intersect in unexpected ways.
Yes, they grow and develop.
And, yes, Special Treatment
does everything it wants to do.
What I wanted it to do, however, was entertain me. That was not included in the special.
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