Can you believe that I haven't featured France's Isabelle Huppert before now . . . since July 2011?
Mercy me, where are my manners?
Isabelle Huppert has been very busy in the 2010s. One of her most notable performances was in 2012's Amour, as the daughter of an elderly couple who struggle to stay together through infirmity. That same year, in the South Korean comedy In Another Country, she played three different Frenchwomen, all named Anne and all taking the form of a charming French visitor to Korea, in a screenplay written by an aspiring Korean film student's sister. (Not the screenplay of the movie itself, a screenplay within the movie from one of the movie's characters!) Both movies were up for the Palme d'Or at the 2012 Cannes Film Festival; Amour won it.
Mlle. Huppert turned to Australian theater in 2013, as she appeared with Cate Blanchett (another honoree on this blog) in the Sydney Theatre Company's production of Jean Genet's The Maids, with a new English translation; it stopped in New York in 2014 on a world tour.
Mlle. Huppert's biggest achievements of late, though, have been her performance as a philosophy professor going through numerous separations in Things To Come and her performance in Elle, in which she plays a businesswoman who gets raped by an unknown assailant. Both movies premiered in 2016.
And she even found time to do American television, with a role on "Law and Order: SVU" in 2010.
Isabelle Huppert, below, at the 2018 Cannes Film Festival) is still active at 65. Her latest film, Eva, was a highlight of the Berlin Film Festival.
Oh, is today Bastille Day? :-D
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