Isabelle Huppert is at it again. In ''Special Treatment,'' this mesmerizing French star with a history of playing sexually transgressive women (a sadomasochistic musician in ''The Piano Teacher,'' an incestuous mother in ''Ma Mère'') portrays Alice Bergerac, a haughty prostitute whose clients engage her in elaborate role-playing fantasies. For a...
Early in Claire Denis's powerful, agonized film ''White Material,'' you see a woman in a short pink dress, Maria -- played by a sublime Isabelle Huppert -- hanging off the back of a bus. The setting is a contemporary unnamed African country being torn to pieces by government troops, marauding rebels and the enduring ravages of European colonialism....
CANNES -- In Marc Fitoussi's ''Copacabana,'' presented as part of Critics' Week, Isabelle Huppert plays an infantile mother who embarrasses her conventional daughter, played by Lolita Chammah. Gaudy and insouciant, Ms. Huppert's Babou is a dropout from society, a character from another age. She smears her eye makeup beyond limits, wears furs over...
Isabelle Huppert (født 16. marts 1953) er en fransk skuespiller.
Huppert blev født i Paris. Hun er både teater- og filmskuespiller. Hun har for nylig optrådt som Hedda Gabbler i Ibsens skuespil.