Félicitations à Isabelle Huppert qui vient d'être nommée présidente de la @cinemathequefr ! Elle devient ainsi la première femme nommée à ce poste éminent et nul doute qu'avec sa cinéphilie aussi curieuse qu'aiguisée, elle saura guider l'institution de la plus belle des manières.
Isabelle Huppert on how Michael Haneke finally convinced her to star in "The Piano Teacher" (2001) & her thoughts on the character:
"Interviewer: Michael Haneke said he would not do “The Piano Teacher” (2001) without you. Did it take convincing for you, or was the role an immediate “yes”?
Huppert: Between Michael and me, it’s a non-story. The first offer was 'Funny Games' (1997) and I turned it down. I thought the film was brilliant, but when I first read the script, it was really, really difficult, because for 'Funny Games' it’s more like an experience to show how the violence was operating onscreen for the spectator, and how it was most of the time wrapped in some kind of a sweet something to make it acceptable by the audience.
In 'Funny Games' there is no wrap. It was the dry experience of death and murder, so there was very little for the imaginative process. But later, he came to me for “Time of the Wolf,” which I dropped out of for various reasons, and I couldn’t do it. [“Time of the Wolf” later came together in 2003, two years after “The Piano Teacher.”] He finally came to me for “The Piano Teacher” (2001) and he was very stubborn and said, “Isabelle, this is my last time. I will never ask you again, and I won’t do the film [without you].” That was enough for me to do it, of course. He was very patient.
Interviewer: Erika can be hard to read. She has a monochromatic expression, and when that starts to shatter, you know she’s unraveling. Other than reading the novel, what was your own private, internal process of preparing to play her?
Huppert: There was something very touching in the character. She has a very high idea of love, but she’s also a suffering woman. That was enough for me to make her be accepted and to love, but of course, really twisted, undoubtedly.
Sometimes, the audience doesn’t know exactly the reasons why you are connected to a film. You can’t really analyze it, but it’s there, and in that case, there was something ideal, something very much in the feeling of love, the love concept was really elevated in the film. She puts love on such a high level, but obviously, she can’t reach it. That’s the problem. But it’s a good project in which to search for love in such an ethereal region of feeling."
(Isabelle Huppert's interview with Ryan Lattanzio, Indiewire, 2022)
P.S: On this day, 25 years ago, "The Piano Teacher" (2001) premiered at the Cannes Fil Festival, France.
HISTOIRES PARALLELES | BANDE-ANNONCE
un film de #AsgharFarhadi
COMPÉTITION OFFICIELLE @Festival_Cannes
avec • Isabelle Huppert • Virginie Efira • Vincent Cassel • Pierre Niney • Adam Bessa • India Hair • avec la participation de #CatherineDeneuve
LE 14 MAI AU CINÉMA
📽️ Retour en images sur LA PIANISTE présenté par #IsabelleHuppert ! Trois séances complètes, en collaboration avec @videoramaclub, pour célébrer les 25 ans du chef-d’œuvre de Michael Haneke. C’était la semaine dernière aux Écoles Cinéma Club, quel moment fantastique ✨
Ciné Break Awards 2025 🏆
Nommées - Meilleure Actrice Francophone
• Adèle Exarchopoulos | L'Accident de piano
• Camille Cottin | Les enfants vont bien
• Isabelle Huppert | La Femme la plus riche du monde
• Jodie Foster | Vie privée
• Léa Drucker | Dossier 137
• Leïla Bekhti | Ma Mère, Dieu et Sylvie Vartan
#CINEBREAKAWARDS
[SORTIE NATIONALE] ✨
Isabelle Huppert présentait MALINA de Werner Schroeter hier au Paris Cinéma Club à l'occasion de sa ressortie au cinéma !
Sélectionnée au dernier Festival Lumière, la version restaurée est à découvrir tous les jours au Christine.
🕓 https://t.co/5YI1TwKxnR
[Un week-end à l'Est] 🇷🇴
Très belle soirée hier à la galerie Paris Cinéma Club avec le vernissage de l'exposition #CristianMungiu en sa présence et celle d'#IsabelleHuppert. Le réalisateur a ensuite présenté 4 MOIS 3 SEMAINES 2 JOURS au Christine 🤩
🔍 https://t.co/to3u7QDArs
Isabelle Huppert comme vous en l’avez jamais vu en interview 😳
Le film La Femme la plus riche du Monde est géniale et on en a parlé en toute décontraction avec Isabelle Huppert, Laurent Lafitte et Thierry Klifa 🎬
La vidéo : https://t.co/wxge3jTsfQ
"On a plus peur de perdre quand on a moins que quand on a beaucoup !"
Rencontre avec l’actrice Isabelle Huppert à l’occasion de la sortie de "La Femme la plus riche du monde", le nouveau film de Thierry Klifa, inspiré par l’histoire de Liliane Bettencourt, en salle le 29 octobre.
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