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Tag Archives: Isabelle Huppert
Gabrielle (2005) Patrice Chéreau, Isabelle Huppert, Pascal Greggory, Claudia Coli
Paris shortly before World War I. Wealthy and self-satisfied, Jean Hervey is returning home from work Read More »
A Judgement in Stone (1995) Claude Chabrol, Isabelle Huppert, Sandrine Bonnaire, Jacqueline Bisset
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 »
School Of Flesh (1998) Benoît Jacquot, Isabelle Huppert, Vincent Martinez, Vincent Lindon
Fashion executive Dominique’s obsession for Quentin, a young bisexual hustler Read More »
White Material (2009) Claire Denis, Isabelle Huppert, Christopher Lambert, Isaach De Bankolé
Denis revisits Africa, this time exploring a place rife with civil and racial conflict. Read More »
My Best Friends Girl (1983) Bertrand Blier, Coluche, Isabelle Huppert, Thierry Lhermitte
Isabelle Huppert plays an attractive Parisienne out looking for some fun during her vacation on the ski slopes of Courchevel Read More »
Every Man For Himself (1980) Jean-Luc Godard, Isabelle Huppert, Jacques Dutronc, Nathalie Baye
An examination of sexual relationships, in which three protagonists interact in different combinations. Read More »
Nightcap (2000) Claude Chabrol, Isabelle Huppert, Jacques Dutronc, Anna Mouglalis
In Lausanne, the aspirant pianist Jeanne Pollet has lunch with her mother Louise Pollet, her boyfriend Axel and his mother. Read More »
A Story of Women (1988) Claude Chabrol, Isabelle Huppert, François Cluzet, Marie Trintignant, Drama, Romance
Marie Latour, a woman of limited schooling, raises two children in a ratty flat during World War II in occupied France. Read More »
Entre Nous (1983) Diane Kurys, Miou-Miou, Isabelle Huppert, Guy Marchand, Biography, Drama, War
In 1942 in occupied France, a Jewish refugee marries a soldier to escape deportation to Germany. Read More »
Violette (1978) Claude Chabrol, Isabelle Huppert, Stéphane Audran, Jean Carmet, Crime, Drama, History, Thriller
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 »
Les Destinées sentimentales / Sentimental Destinies (2000) Olivier Assayas, Emmanuelle Béart, Charles Berling, Isabelle Huppert, Drama, Romance
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 »
Le juge et l’assassin / The Judge and the Assassin (1976) Bertrand Tavernier, Philippe Noiret, Michel Galabru, Isabelle Huppert, Crime, Drama, History
France, 1893. Joseph Bouvier, a former Sergeant in the French military, shoots his beloved and attempts to kill himself. Read More »
The Trout / La truite (1982) Joseph Losey, Isabelle Huppert, Jacques Spiesser, Jeanne Moreau, Drama, Romance
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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La pianiste / The Piano Teacher (2001) Michael Haneke, Isabelle Huppert, Annie Girardot, Benoît Magimel, Drama, Music, Romance
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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