Tag Archives: Isabelle Huppert

This story begins in 1870 at a little town somewhere in Russia. It processed the real “Nyecsajev story”. Read More »

Paris shortly before World War I. Wealthy and self-satisfied, Jean Hervey is returning home from work Read More »

The upper-class owner of a gallery, Catherine Lelievre, hires the efficient and quiet maid Sophie to work in the family manor in the French countryside. Read More »

Fashion executive Dominique’s obsession for Quentin, a young bisexual hustler Read More »

Denis revisits Africa, this time exploring a place rife with civil and racial conflict. Read More »

Isabelle Huppert plays an attractive Parisienne out looking for some fun during her vacation on the ski slopes of Courchevel Read More »

An examination of sexual relationships, in which three protagonists interact in different combinations. Read More »

In Lausanne, the aspirant pianist Jeanne Pollet has lunch with her mother Louise Pollet, her boyfriend Axel and his mother. Read More »

Marie Latour, a woman of limited schooling, raises two children in a ratty flat during World War II in occupied France. Read More »

In 1942 in occupied France, a Jewish refugee marries a soldier to escape deportation to Germany. Read More »

Within a interwar France struggling with deep political and social change, 18-year-old Violette Noziere rebels against the limits of her working-class (and potentially incestuous) household, with troubling consequences. Read More »

In late nineteenth century Charante, Protestant minister Jean Barnery causes local disquiet when he arranges a separation from his obsessive wife – and more talk when he decides to take her back. Read More »

France, 1893. Joseph Bouvier, a former Sergeant in the French military, shoots his beloved and attempts to kill himself. Read More »

Frederique (Huppert) leaves her family’s small-town trout farm to embark on an journey taking her to Japan and into the arms of a man. Irritations concerning her actions and present state of feelings begin to fill her mind, forcing her to come to terms with innermost self.
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Erika Kohut is a pianist, teaching music. Schubert and Schumann are her forte, but she’s not quite at concert level. She’s approaching middle age, living with her mother who is domineering then submissive; Erika is a victim then combative. With her students she is severe. She visits a sex shop to watch DVDs; she walks a drive-in theater to stare at couples having sex. Walter is a self-assured student with some musical talent; he auditions for her class and is forthright in his attraction to her. She responds coldly then demands he let her lead. Next she changes the game with a letter, inviting him into her fantasies. How will he respond; how does sex have power over our other faculties?
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