The Stranger

(FILM) This film about a dystopian boarding school, based on a turn-of-the-last-century novella called The Corporal Education of Young Girls, is directed by Lucile Hadzihalilovic, who's the collaborator and off-screen partner of Gaspar Noé (Irreversible). Her movie is everything his over-the-top brutality fantasias are not: subtle, menacing, and rigidly contained. Best of all is her nearly wordless personality portraiture. This little girl is a sly sensualist; that little girl has the otherworldly fury of Antigone. (Northwest Film Forum, 1515 12th Ave, 267-5380. 7 pm and 9:30 pm, $5-$8.) by Annie Wagner

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