Abuse of Weakness

Abuse of Weakness (2013)

Abus de faiblesse

A stroke-afflicted filmmaker is manipulated by a notorious con man.

Date of release
2013-09-06
TMDB
5.3 / 10 (44)
Runtime
1h 44m
Genres
Drama
Director
Catherine Breillat

Casting

Interesting facts

Abuse of Weakness is a 2013 semi-autobiographical film written and directed by Catherine Breillat. The film had its world premiere on 6 September 2013 at the Toronto International Film Festival. In the United States, the film was acquired by Strand Releasing and given a release in December 2014. The title derives from a French legal term that may translate as "exploitation of a vulnerable person".

Production

In 2007, Breillat met notorious conman Christophe Rocancourt, and offered him a leading role in a film that she was planning to make, based on her own novel Bad Love, and co-starring Naomi Campbell. Soon after, she gave him €25,000 to write a screenplay titled La vie amoureuse de Christophe Rocancourt (The Love Life of Christophe Rocancourt), and over the next year and a half, would give him loans totalling an additional €678,000.

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