ISABELLE HUPPERT

Which is the one based on Pop. 1280 again?

i'm going for "Bag of Nodes"

Alex, that's Coup de Torchon

Okay then it's between that and Time of the Wolf, I think.

is she the broad with the nice gams?

this isn't really THAT arthousey, morbius.

micro-arthousey

It's pretty art-house-y. It's not a Guy Maddin poll, but it's close.

considering that everyone's going to vote for Huckabees, no.

she's amazing in La Cérémonie

i didn't even vote for huckabees.

her part in la ceremonie was originally written for kurt russell

The Piano or Story of Women.

Which one has titties, I'm voting for that one.

ALL of them, they're arthouse french movies with isabelle huppert in them.

lolz

what wd Americans consider "non-arthouse" French? any w/ Luc Besson involvement?

i just told you that i didn't consider this v arthouse at all! i think basically ALL french films would be considered arthouse by mainstream america though.

what wd Americans consider "non-arthouse" French? any w/ Luc Besson involvement

Amerie! The original Three Men and a Baby C'est tres naturelle!

Couldn't really decide here, but since Loulou was the first movie I saw her in I voted for that. The Piano Teacher would be my #2 pick.

I LURVE this woman!!!!!!!!!!!

oh my god, she was crepey in the Piano Teacher.

The Piano Teacher.

i mean, i love Haneke (sorry morbs) although this is not one of my favourites from him. she, however, owns the film. NO ONE else could have played this part.

i love her! piano teacher was something.. i liked merci pour le chocolat a lot.

so many films here i haven't seen.

My Best Friend's Girl (a.k.a. La Femme de la Pote, 1983)

Foxy, stoic Isabelle + J.J. Cale soundtrack = perfection

I watched 'Me and My Sister' with my gf and her mum. It was possibly the most appropriate movie ever to do that. it was FUN, we all enjoyed it.

lolol @ Bedroom Window

i like Going Places but she was just a youngin' in that, i think La Ceremonie & Story of Women are her best perfomances (i didn't see the Piano teacher)
http://www.acrstudio.com/projects/word/huppert/goldin_nan2004400.jpg

she has aged well, and i like her freckles :)
http://twi-ny.com/2005nextwave.jpg

ok, last one
http://www.radiofrance.fr/chaines/france-culture2/emissions/toutarrive/photos/305120404-photo.jpg

Pretty lady.

Violette was such crap.

But I voted Ma Mere, so take that with a grain of salt.

La Ceremonie is amazing, but I was swayed by the siren call of Hal Hartley

Violette was such crap

Not when I watched it as an impressionable 15 year old, it wasn't.

Eric, you sleaze.

Ma Mere was a tub of shit. It's not even the best Louis Garrel-starring Frenchy incest movie.

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jeezus I shoulda guessed.

prob the worst cast Madame Bovary evah.

"Gabrielle" is really amazing. she is wonderful in it and, again, when she is this good she convinces to such a degree that you believe no one else could have played the part. Chereau has made a drawing room costume drama that seems utterly modern and, seriously, unlike anything else i have seen. i think it's pretty far out. see it.

She is so cool.

I don't really want to watch piano teacher again though.

jed OTM

I watched Loulou last night for 1st time in eons. Pialat doesn't try to explain her indulgence of Depardiey beyond sex, wisely.

4 votes for Huckabees? Jeez...

i think i would have voted 'la ceremonie'

I finally saw Gabrielle a couple of weeks ago. I thought its okay. I had a hard time getting over the rapid cutting. It seemed like the director had shot alot of coverage and was convinced he had to use all of it.

BTW, has anybody seen Private Property yet? Looks promising (and should be out on DVD soon).

i think i would have voted 'la ceremonie'
She was channeling Ruth Gordon in that one.

hahaha

"BTW, has anybody seen Private Property yet?"

i may see it tonight. anyone else seen it?

She is completely bananas in Serge Bozon's Tip Top, as an internal affairs cop who's insensitive to Muslims and into BDSM (there's a recurring "gag" involving a wound on her nose that I shan't reveal).

I didn't laugh all that much tho, may be untranslatable frenchy black comedy.

i watched the new-ish breillat one -- hupperts v good in it as per yoosh; it's v restrained for breillat, i liked it ok

She works so damn much I almost wish she'd take it easier, but the level of physical commitment, and contrast of slapstick with harrowing struggle in Tip Top and Abuse of Weakness, is a one-two comparable to Cotillard in the last year.

I think the autobio element of Abuse of Weakness sobered up Breillat a little in this one -- the movie that Huppert pitches to the con man early on sounds as terrible as one of her turn-of-the-millennium films.

I laughed, at times in the wrong places, when I watched AOW last summer, in part because this is such a typical Huppert role. But it lingered long enough for me to watch it again in December. It made my top ten.

whats the word on the godard one she's in, 'every man for himself'? just recently came out on blu via criterion apparently

It's considered a pivotal film for him, but I haven't seen it since '81.

It's interesting (and has one very funny scene centering on Huppert, who pretty much hijacks control of the narrative when she first appears about 45min in) but I prefer the subsequent Godard's more.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rcBivDDUMTM

that's hysterical. you're supposed to talk about movies, izzie, not shoplift.

1980 interview: https://www.filmcomment.com/article/isabelle-huppert/

(swoon)

The film she had just finished when she did that interview - "La Dame Aux Camellias" - is freakin' gorgeous.

Cristina Álvarez López & Adrian Martin:

http://www.filmcritic.com.au/essays/huppert.html

Lol the results of this poll are appalling!

Interesting article, but i think the withdrawn, interior nature of her performances often over emphasised. She can be a very physical actress and a hilarious screen presence. The part about reading her work as though she was the primary author of those films seems particularly appropriate as I've often felt that about her. Elle is a good example. I don't think the article quite captures her assertiveness.

Agreed!

But Elle would likely win today. Or as I call it, Paul Verhoeven's good movie. xp

MUBI are doing a Huppert retro, including the adaptation of Bachmann's Malina, which got a reissue last year.

Only time I didn’t like her was in The Ceremony.

ha! I saw it again in June for my first viewing since 1997; I was newly charmed.

I was gonna suggest Madame Bovary, an inexplicable role, performance, and adaptation. Chabrol could've written and directed a taut, merciless version we don't see onscreen.

haha she's so funny in La Ceremonie!

xp Alfred - I agree, and I think he did about a decade earlier with Violette Noziere

Malina was a tough watch. It would make a good double feature with Possession.

Lol Malina is hilarious!

Hilarity from the same well, as say, Greenaway. One has to be in the mood.

Though if you're keen on Huppert smoking (actual cigarettes), its the peak.

1982 La Truite

Watched this on MUBI the other way and gotta say I find it hard to get a handle on early Huppert -- partly I haven't seen enough, partly some of the films are by auteurs who are sorta past it. This is a good curio. Huppert utterly comfortable in being assertive, a destroyer of men, playing alongside Moreau, with a section in Japan that ties in with the curious 80s fetish for all things Japanese in Western filmmaking.

Lol I saw this a while ago and thought it was a great example of huppert basically wresting a film from the director and deciding on its general tone. A totally oddball film and one of the only European losey films I've seen that I didn't hate

Ha saw that a few weeks ago as well and thought she owned it. Killer Eurodisco soundtrack as well. That biwling scene is nutty.

*bowling

Young Huppert could do “bad seed” like few others and I always feel the older male directors who cast her (Chabrol, Losey, Pialat) were happy to let her just be in front of the cameras because she elicited something they often could barely get a handle on. All the better for it.

Well said.

Literally what is that movie supposed to be about though?

“A young working class woman’s determination to not be an object of desire for wealthy men while simultaneously using these men to her advantage. Meanwhile, she’s married to a gay alcoholic and works on a trout farm squeezing eggs from fish. “

why have i never seen this photo of Isabelle Huppert at The Piano Teacher premiere with “God can thank Bach because Bach is proof of the existence of God” sharpied on her pic.twitter.com/SmRrkhAR8f

— KYK (@kristenyoonsoo) December 23, 2020

Huppert retro not kidding around pic.twitter.com/p6KJJQ9BGM

— Nicolas Rapold (@NicolasRapold) October 20, 2022

I never reallly her in that one tbh. Too much Al Pacino-style scenery chewing. HOO-HA!

HUPPERT-HA!

Bien fait!

She's an excellent performer but I rarely look forward to seeing her in anything, there's something inordinately effortful about watching her leading roles. I've seen 10 of these (but not La Pianiste, which I've avoided for exactly that reason) and would probably have voted for Les Destinées Sentimentales, where she has a great supporting role. Amateur was truly terrible and she wasn't much better in it.

She's not effortful but she's been in effortful movies.

Been thinking of rewatching Loulou which is showing on MUBI now as part of a Pialat retro.

my boyfriend was buying fabric in a shop in Paris recently, and the woman cutting it from the roll for him maintained throughout a look of pure hatred directed at another man across the shop floor who also worked there and did not appear to notice. Once she was finished cutting she suddenly turned to my bf smiling enthusiastically and handed him the fabric saying 'bonne couture!' and immediately he thought about how the city is literally overflowing with material for huppert types.

Ha, OTM.

Isabelle Huppert will star as 16th-century Hungarian serial killer Countess Elizabeth Báthory in the latest film from Ulrike Ottinger, co-written with Elfriede Jelinek and also starring Birgit Minichmayr, Lars Eidinger and Thomas Schubert.https://t.co/f1CVe20n0u

— Notebook (@mubinotebook) February 4, 2025

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ROd8qyO5Nzg

A remake of Countess Dracula written by Elfriede Jelinek definitely feels like something I’ve dreamt come to life.

Exciting!

with ulrike ottinger!

will there be #discourse on how the historical Bathory did pretty much none of the stuff history has saddled her with?

The Crime Is Mine (2023)

Huppert is gloriously goth as a washed-up silent film star looking for a comeback.