Tag Archives: Isabelle Huppert

Valley of Love

Posted on March 25, 2017 by Helen Van Kruyssen

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 →

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L’avenir (Things to Come)

Posted on November 18, 2016 by Helen Van Kruyssen

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 →

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Elle

Posted on June 22, 2016 by Helen Van Kruyssen

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 →

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Sauve Qui Peut (La Vie) Every Man for Himself

Posted on June 9, 2016 by Helen Van Kruyssen

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 →

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Isabelle Huppert: the allure of her vacant room

Posted on June 7, 2016 by Helen Van Kruyssen

Isabelle Huppert is in London and the sun is shining bright, a lion in the sky, shaking its mane over her enigmatic chill. It’s Huppert Season: films are playing in various cinemas across the city, some accompanied by introductions from … Continue reading →

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César et Rosalie

Posted on March 5, 2016 by Helen Van Kruyssen

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 →

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Madame Bovary

Posted on December 12, 2015 by Helen Van Kruyssen

Isabelle Huppert places a sad stone in Emma Bovary, one that will never move … Continue reading →

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Villa Amalia

Posted on December 8, 2015 by Helen Van Kruyssen

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 →

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Merci Pour Le Chocolat

Posted on July 3, 2015 by Helen Van Kruyssen

‘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 →

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Une Affaire De Femmes (A Story of Women)

Posted on February 5, 2015 by Helen Van Kruyssen

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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