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Tag Archives: Isabelle Huppert
Valley of Love
Small bird and giant, Isabelle Huppert and Gerard Depardieu, play out divorced love as two old friends, equally strong and fragile, bound by an unusual request from their deceased son – he has written a letter asking them to meet … Continue reading
L’avenir (Things to Come)
Sadness is soothed by reason, and resurrection a full confident moon in writer/director Mia Hanson-Løve’s tale of heartbreak and loss. Nathalie (Isabelle Huppert) is a Parisian philosophy teacher and text-book writer who lives in a modest, book-lined flat with her … Continue reading
Elle
At its dark, oddly humorous heart director Paul Verhoven’s thriller is a about a wealthy woman’s response to trauma. Michèle (Isabelle Huppert), owner of a successful video-game company, lives alone in a house in a nice part of Paris, has … Continue reading
Sauve Qui Peut (La Vie) Every Man for Himself
Godard’s charm is particular: his ability to hold us close to his characters, shake us for a reaction, and then pull us back to the position of voyeur. Sometimes we are with them, and sometimes we aren’t. Depression and solemn … Continue reading
César et Rosalie
Male adoration and infatuation takes two forms in Claude Sautet’s love-triangle serenade, starring Romy Schneider as the woman unable to choose between a passionate entrepreneur and an aloof artist. Both are obsessed with her, but show their interest in different … Continue reading
Madame Bovary
Isabelle Huppert places a sad stone in Emma Bovary, one that will never move … Continue reading
Posted in Auteur, Claude Chabrol, Film Review, French Cinema, French Film, French film Review, French Movie, French Movie Reveiw, French Movie Reviews, French Movies, Literary adaptation in French cinema, Madame Bovary, Nouvelle Vague, Sexuality, The New Wave
Tagged Claude Chabrol, Gustave Flaubert, Isabelle Huppert, Jean-François Balmer, Jean-Michel Bernard, Madame Bovary, Matthieu Chabrol
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Villa Amalia
A study of a musician’s mind: Isabelle Huppert’s performance takes us with magnificence to a place of pleasurable distraction and quiet meditation Continue reading
Merci Pour Le Chocolat
‘I have a knack for doing wrong,’ confesses Swiss-Chocolate factory owner Mika Muller (Isabelle Huppert), the praline beauty in Claude Chabrol’s detective-style thriller. Chabrol wanted to make a film about ‘Evil’, chose Huppert as its purveyor, and from the opening … Continue reading
Posted in Claude Chabrol, French Cinema, French Film, Merci Pour le Chocolat, Thriller
Tagged Anna Mouglalis, Auteur, Catholicism, Chabrol's confessions, Childhood repression, Claude Chabrol, Detective genre, Evil personified, Fairytale evil, French Cinema, French Film, French film review, Isabelle Huppert, Jacques Dutronc, Merci Pour Le Chocolat, Movies with pianists, Rodolphe Pauly, Swiss chocolate in the movies, Thriller
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Une Affaire De Femmes (A Story of Women)
With a smile as cold and shining as sun on snow, Isabelle Huppert plays Marie-Louise Giraud, an illegal abortionist sent to the guillotine in 1943 by the Vichy regime. Claude Chabrol writes and directs Marie as an unconventional heroine, one … Continue reading
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Tagged Claude Chabrol, François Cluzet, Isabelle Huppert, Marie Trinitgnant
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