ISABELLE HUPPERT

RETROSPECTIVE OF ICONIC FRENCH ACTRESS

 

OCTOBER 7 – 27 (THREE WEEKS) AT FILM FORUM

 

FESTIVAL INCLUDES HUPPERT’S WORK WITH DIRECTORS CLAUDE CHABROL, JEAN-LUC GODARD, JOSEPH LOSEY, DIANE KURYS, MAURICE PIALAT, HONG SANG-SOO, FRANÇOIS OZON, MICHAEL HANEKE, OLIVIER ASSAYAS, IRA SACHS, CLAIRE DENIS, MICHAEL CIMINO, PAUL VERHOEVEN, RAÚL RUIZ, AND MANY OTHERS

 

ISABELLE HUPPERT, a three-week festival spotlighting over twenty-five of the actress’ starring vehicles, will run at Film Forum from October 7 through October 27. The expansive series features rarely screened work, including her debut performance in Claude Goretta’s THE LACEMAKER, Claude Chabrol's VIOLETTE NOZIERE, Joseph Losey’s THE TROUT, Jean-Luc Godard’s PASSION, Olivier Assayas’ SENTIMENTAL DESTINIES, Raúl Ruiz’s COMEDY OF INNOCENCE; her early collaborations with Chabrol, Maurice Pialat, Diane Kurys, Michael Cimino; recent roles in films by Claire Denis, Hong Sang-soo, Ursula Meier, Michael Haneke, and more. Many of the prints, some of them rarely screened in the U.S., will be imported from international archives.

 

Isabelle Huppert began her career in her teens. Her appearance, at age 24, in Goretta’s THE LACEMAKER (1977) earned her a BAFTA Most Promising Newcomer award and marked her international debut. A year later, she played the modest schoolgirl turned murderess in VIOLETTE NOZIÈRE (1978), based on a true story, her first of seven collaborations with Chabrol. The performance won her the Best Actress prize at Cannes. 

 

In the decades that followed, Huppert continued to explore enigmatic and emotionally distant characters in Maurice Pialat's LOULOU (1980), Godard's EVERY MAN FOR HIMSELF (1980), Diane Kurys' ENTRE NOUS (1983), and Chabrol's STORY OF WOMEN (1988). She had a standout part playing a manic and homicidal post office worker in Chabrol's LA CÉRÉMONIE (1995). Her performance in Michael Haneke's THE PIANO TEACHER (2001), “a terrifying tour-de force of lust, cruelty, masochism and musicianship...Huppert performs [the titular character’s] descent into madness with icy precision and operatic intensity,” (A.O. Scott, The New York Times), earned her the Best Actress prize in Cannes. 

 

With now over 50 starring credits, ranging from psychological thriller to lighthearted comedy– across America, France, Italy, Russia, and more– Huppert’s prodigious output has made her the recipient of several accolades, including two César Awards, three Cannes Film Festival honors, a Golden Globe, an Oscar nomination, and Berlin's 2021 lifetime achievement award for her work as "more than a celebrated actor, but an uncompromising artist who doesn’t hesitate to take risks and flout mainstream trends." She ranks #2 on The New York Times’ list of the 25 Greatest Actors of the 21st Century.

 

Manohla Dargis wrote of her in The New York Times, "Fearless and  mesmerizing, sometimes scary, sometimes freakish, Isabelle Huppert has taken on an astonishment of roles over her career, moving effortlessly from tears to shrieks, from the straightest stories to the most gloriously unhinged. She’s acted in more than 50 movies this century alone, industriousness that speaks to her ambition and popularity, but also suggests a ravenous hunger that you can see in her acting... Her characters boil over with life." 

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Films included in series (additional titles to be announced):

 

THE LACEMAKER

Switzerland, France, West Germany, 1977

Directed by Claude Goretta

Written by Claude Goretta

Based on the Pascal Lainé novel La dentellière

Starring Isabelle Huppert, Yves Beneyton

DCP restoration. Approx. 107 min.

 

VIOLETTE NOZIERE

France, 1978

Directed by Claude Chabrol

Starring Isabelle Huppert, Stéphane Audran, Jean Carmet

35mm print courtesy CNC. Approx. 124 min. 

 

EVERY MAN FOR HIMSELF

France, Switzerland, West Germany, Austria, 1980

Directed by Jean-Luc Godard

Written by Anne-Marie Miéville, Jean-Claude Carrière

Starring Isabelle Huppert, Jacques Dutronc, Nathalie Baye

35mm. Approx. 87 min. 

 

LOULOU

France, 1980 

Directed by Maurice Pialat

Starring Isabelle Huppert, Gérard Depardieu, Guy Marchand

DCP. Approx. 101 min.

 

HEAVEN’S GATE

U.S., 1980

Directed by Michael Cimino

Cinematography by Vilmos Zsigmond 

Starring Kris Kristofferson, Christopher Walken, John Hurt, Sam Waterston, Brad Dourif, Isabelle Huppert, Jeff Bridges

DCP. Approx. 219 min. 

 

THE TROUT

France, 1982

Directed by Joseph Losey

Starring Isabelle Huppert, Jean-Pierre Cassel, Jeanne Moreau

DCP restoration. Approx. 103 min.

 

PASSION

France, 1982

Directed by Jean-Luc Godard

Starring Isabelle Huppert, Hanna Schygulla, Michel Piccoli, Jerzy Radziwiłowicz

35mm print courtesy Villa Albertine, French Embassy in the U.S.  

Approx. 88 min.

 

ENTRE NOUS 

France, 1983

Directed by Diane Kurys

Starring Miou-Miou, Isabelle Huppert, Guy Marchand, Jean-Pierre Bacri

DCP. Approx. 110 min

 

STORY OF WOMEN

France, 1988

Directed by Claude Chabrol

Written by Colo Tavernier, Claude Chabrol

Based on the Francis Szpiner novel Une affaire de femmes

Starring Isabelle Huppert, François Cluzet, Marie Trintignant

35mm print courtesy Villa Albertine, French Embassy in the U.S  

Approx. 108 min.

 

MADAME BOVARY

France, 1991

Directed by Claude Chabrol

Written by Claude Chabrol

Based on the Gustave Flaubert novel Madame Bovary: Provincial Manners

Starring Isabelle Huppert, Jean-François Balmer 

DCP restoration. Approx. 143 min.

 

AMATEUR

United States, United Kingdom, France, 1994

Directed by Hal Hartley

Starring Isabelle Huppert, Martin Donovan, Elina Löwensohn

35mm print courtesy Chicago Film Society. Approx. 105 min.

 

LA CÉRÉMONIE

France, Germany, 1995

Directed by Claude Chabrol

Written by Claude Chabrol, Caroline Eliacheff

Based on the Ruth Rendell novel A Judgment in Stone

Starring Isabelle Huppert, Sandrine Bonnaire Jean-Pierre Cassel, Jacqueline Bisset

DCP restoration. Approx. 111 min.

 

PAS DE SCANDALE

France, 1999

Directed by Benoît Jacquot

Starring Fabrice Luchini, Isabelle Huppert, Vincent Lindon

DCP. Approx. 104 min.

 

SENTIMENTAL DESTINIES

2000

Directed by Olivier Assayas

Starring Isabelle Huppert, Emmanuelle Béart, Charles Berling

35mm print courtesy Villa Albertine, French Embassy in the U.S.  

Approx. 180 min.

 

COMEDY OF INNOCENCE

France, 2000

Directed by Raúl Ruiz

Adapted from the Massimo Bontempelli novel The Child of Two Mothers

Starring Isabelle Huppert, Jeanne Balibar, Charles Berling, Edith Scob 

35mm print courtesy Villa Albertine, French Embassy in the U.S.  

Approx. 100 min.

 

THE PIANO TEACHER

France, Austria, Germany, 2001

Directed by Michael Haneke

Written by Michael Haneke

Based on the Elfriede Jelinek novel The Piano Teacher

Starring Isabelle Huppert, Benoît Magimel, Annie Girardot, Susanne Lothar  

DCP. Approx. 131 min.

 

ISABELLE HUPPERT, UNE VIE POUR JOUER

France, 2001

Directed by Serge Toubiana

Starring Isabelle Huppert

Approx. 52 min.

 

8 WOMEN

France, 2002 

Directed by François Ozon

Written by François Ozon, Marina de Van

Based on the play by Robert Thomas

Starring Virginie Ledoyen, Danielle Darrieux, Firmine Richard, Catherine Deneuve, Emmanuelle Béart, Isabelle Huppert

35mm. Approx. 111 min. 

 

TIME OF THE WOLF

France, Austria, Germany, 2003

Directed by Michael Haneke

Starring Isabelle Huppert, Béatrice Dalle

DCP. Approx. 114 min. 

 

HOME

Switzerland, France, Belgium, 2008

Directed by Ursula Meier

Starring Isabelle Huppert, Olivier Gourmet

Digital. Approx. 98 min.

 

WHITE MATERIAL

France, 2009

Directed by Claire Denis

Starring Isabelle Huppert, Christopher Lambert, Nicolas Duvauchelle, William Nadylam

35mm. Approx. 102 min.

 

IN ANOTHER COUNTRY

South Korea, 2012

Directed by Hong Sang-soo

Starring Isabelle Huppert, Joon-Sang Yoo, Yu-mi Jung, Youn Yuh-jung

DCP. Approx. 90 min.

 

VALLEY OF LOVE

France, Belgium, 2015

Directed by Guillaume Nicloux

Starring Isabelle Huppert, Gérard Depardieu

DCP. Approx. 91 min.

 

THINGS TO COME 

France, Germany, 2016

Directed by Mia Hansen-Løve

Starring Isabelle Huppert, André Marcon, Roman Kolinka

DCP. Approx. 100 min.

 

ELLE

France, Germany, 2016

Directed by Paul Verhoeven

Based on the Philippe Djian novel Oh...

Screenplay by David Birke

Starring Isabelle Huppert, Laurent Lafitte, Anne Consigny, Charles Berling

DCP. Approx. 130 min.

 

FRANKIE

France, Portugal, 2019

Directed by Ira Sachs

Starring Isabelle Huppert, Sennia Nanua, Ariyon Bakare, Jérémie Renier, Brendan Gleeson, Marisa Tomei, 

Greg Kinnear

DCP. Approx. 100 min.

 

Programmed by Elspeth Carroll, Associate Repertory Programmer, Bruce Goldstein, Film Forum Repertory Artistic Director and Vincent Katz

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