Isabelle Huppert

Navigation - link to other main sections from here Isabelle Huppert shines as the eccentric, scheming mother of two selfish children living in 1931 in French Indochina An episodic adaptation of a Marguerite Duras novel, The Sea Wall...

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...Language Film Oscar are coming soon, including "Home" (Nov. 27), from Switzerland, directed by Ursula Meier and starring Isabelle Huppert, about a family that endures hardships when a highway is built near its house. | Corneliu Porumboiu...

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...as many top-rate films this decade as the Austrian Michael Haneke? Code Unknown (2000); The Piano Teacher (2002), in which Isabelle Huppert gave one of the great performances in recent times; the eerily-apocalyptic Time of the Wolf (2003);...

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...tough. And The Piano Teacher, his second French-language film after Code Unknown, was hardly a joyride either. Starring Isabelle Huppert in one of her most demanding roles, the film caused controversy in Cannes in 2001, with its mix of...

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...poised somewhere between a pinnacle of the theatrical avant-garde and a parody of it. Fortunately, this incarnation boasts Isabelle Huppert, an actress of remarkable rigor, in the role of Merteuil. Huppert manages to appear imperious even...

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...to 1997's Funny Games were critics of Austrian society, but by 2000 he discovered the French actresses Juliette Binoche and Isabelle Huppert, and his movies starting with Code Unknown took on a more international outlook. His first major award...

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...master of animation familiar in the West. A moving story, exquisitely drawn. 63 The Piano Teacher Michael Haneke, 2001, GBP9.78: Isabelle Huppert delivered the decade's boldest performance in this portrait of the self-mutilating...

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...and justify his movie during the press conference. Later, Gainsbourg was awarded the best actress prize by a jury that included Isabelle Huppert, Asia Argento and Robin Wright Penn. At the New York Film Festival, an audience member reportedly...

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...of Orlando, he can take you anywhere he wants. Theater occupies a surprisingly large chunk of Huppert's resume, considering that the actress is often lauded (and occasionally criticized) for acting, Garbo-style, entirely through her...

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...it that's new to us - or that's really going to be of much interest. "Villa Amalia," the closing-night film, stars Isabelle Huppert as a concert pianist who turns her back on her entire previous life when she sees her live-in lover...

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