Paul Verhoeven’s Elle has been described as a rape-comedy. This may be catchy but it’s inaccurate; there is comedy in the film, mostly thanks to Isabelle Huppert’s sarky way with a one-liner as a Parisian career woman who doesn’t react in the way you’d expect to being violated on the floor of her dining-room by a masked intruder. But the rape scenes (and there are more than one) are not played for laughs. Nor, thank God, are they even remote...