Elles is well performed and offers food for thought but raises many more questions than it answers.

Writer-director Malgorzata Szumowska breaks past the facile moralizing only once.

"Elles" has a surprisingly deep performance in a disappointingly shallow movie.

The English loan word ‘sponsoring’ is used in Polish to refer to relationships between young women and sugar daddies. Szumowska has described the young sex workers as victims of consumerism, but [in Elle] is equally a victim of her own choices