Isabelle Huppert

One of the great contemporary actresses, Isabelle Huppert has developed a style of acting that makes meticulous precision seem spontaneous. She has worked more closely with more major cinematic personalities than anyone else of her generation (from Jean-Luc Godard and Michael Cimino to Michael Haneke and Claire Denis), and one of the major questions explored through this exhibition is the way in which her method and persona have been utilized by, and in collaboration with, these different auteurs. The final room returns to the question of the differences between performing for the stage and screen.

Isabelle Huppert Interview

Jean-Luc Godard and Isabelle Huppert

Jean-Luc Godard creates startling beauty out of fragmented images without synchronous sound, juxtaposed quotations, Mozart's Requiem, moving lamps, and portrait shots of the face in Passion (1982)

Heaven's Gate

Heaven's Gate (Michael Cimino, 1980) is one of the most surprising films in the American cinema and a favorite of Isabelle Huppert, participating here in a roller dance that brings together several different approaches to the most influential of genres, the Western.

Michael Haneke and Isabelle Huppert

The Piano Teacher (Michael Haneke, 2001)

Paul Verhoeven's Method

Elle (Paul Verhoeven, 2016)

Isabelle Huppert on Theater

Isabelle Huppert's Approach to Performance

Isabelle Huppert's intense approach to theatrical acting is exemplified by this section of Médée (Jacques Laselle, 2000, Avignon)