Word: huppert
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Judge and The Assassin ends with a cinematic non sequitur; a strike breaks out in a never-before-mentioned-factory, Isabelle Huppert, last seen as the sodomized mistress of Rousseau, now appears as an aspiring diva, singing Bouvier's favorite ballad-off-key, and the entire striking mob is bathed in a Hallmark card glow. The police prepare to shoot and the screen goes black as these significant words appear: "in the year that Joseph Bouvier killed twelve children, 16,000 died in the mines of France." Both facts are terrible; is Tavernier suggesting that Bouvier should not have been...
...frontier skills. Hundreds of extras were made to practice skating for weeks. There were also courses in waltzing, horse and buggy handling, bullwhipping, and music for a band using instruments of the time. Kristofferson and Walken took handgun lessons from a former Green Beret weapons specialist. French Actress Isabelle Huppert (The Lacemaker) was installed in Wallace's real-life whorehouse for three days to learn the rituals over which she would preside in the film...
...Huppert's performances are so strik ingly vivid and so markedly personal that they seem not to be performances...
After seeing The Lacemaker, in which Huppert played a sweet dull-minded girl broken by her first love affair, it is impossible to believe that in real life she is not at least slightly bovine. Violette (for which she won the Best Actress award at this year's Cannes Festival) leaves the viewer convinced, contrarily, that she must be willful, neurotic and blown about by stormy emotions. Neither turns out to be the case. Her face is lively and full of intelligence, and it shows none of the opacity that she assumed for these two roles...
There has been little torment and oppression in Huppert's own experience. She was the clever youngest daughter in a big, prosperous Parisian household, and her parents (her father is a manufacturer of safes, her mother an English teacher) were full of encouragement when she decided that she wanted to change her educational direction from Russian studies to acting. At 15, freckled, a bit chubby, with the look of a beauty five years before she would be beautiful, she had a small part in Faustine et le Bel Etc. Even then she was very much self-propelled...