25-06-2007, 12:28 AM
Isabelle Huppert film festival, melbourne
Cool, intense and hypnotic, France's most daring contemporary actress is celebrated in a retrospective charting an iconic screen career.
ACMI's Focus on Isabelle Huppert celebrates three decades in a powerhouse film career, from Huppert's star-defining role in Claude Goretta's The Lacemaker in 1977 to her typically fearless performance as a woman exploring the darkest permutations of desire in Christophe Honore's provocative Ma mere, which opens our season.
The retrospective also features films by French auteurs Claude Chabrol (four of the seven features Chabrol and Huppert have made together are represented in the season), Jean-Luc Godard, Maurice Pialat and Diane Kurys as well as collaborations with international filmmakers of distinctive vision including Paul Cox, Michael Cimino, Hal Hartley, Michael Haneke and Olivier Dahan (director of the highly anticipated Edith Piaf musical biopic, La vie en rose).
Fri 29 June - Tue 10 July 2007
Full $13 Concession $10
Six Session Pass: Full $60 Concession $48
Curated by Roberta Ciabarra.
phone (03) 8663 2583
ma mère (my mother)
Honore's provocative film is based on the novel by Georges Bataille.
la dentellière (the lacemaker)
Huppert garnered a Best Newcomer BAFTA for this breakout role, early (and prescient) intimation of a great talent in the making.
sauve qui peut (la vie) (slow motion)
Three disparate souls cross paths in Godard's wry yet beguilingly lyrical rumination on the notion of selling oneself.
loulou
Nelly (Huppert) is married to a hapless advertising exec whose attempts to rein her in only deepen her resolve to skulk away with gadabout, Loulou.
coup de foudre (aka entre nous)
Based on an autobiographical novel by director Diane Kurys, the film re-teams Huppert with the under-rated Marchand, her co-star in Loulou.
cactus
Huppert travelled to Australia to take up the role of Colo, a Frenchwoman in exile from a stifling marriage.
la séparation (the separation)
Huppert gives nuanced expression to the uncertainties and compulsions of a woman who suffers (and inflicts suffering) by her own hand.
merci pour le chocolat (nightcap)
In his seventh on-screen collaboration with Huppert, Chabrol explores the nature of perversity, good and evil within the domain of family.
une affaire des femmes (story of women)
The Venice Film Festival awarded Huppert the Volpi Cup for Best Actress for her role in this film.
madame bovary
Huppert's Emma Bovary is at once coquettish, exasperating, pitiless and ultimately deeply affecting.
le temps du loup (time of the wolf)
A sudden act of violence ruptures every moral certitude Anne (Huppert) and her two children have taken for granted in their middle class lives.
amateur
Huppert approached self-confessed Godard aficionado, Hal Hartley, who jumped at the chance to cast her in one of his deadpan, absurdist films.
la pianiste (the piano teacher)
Huppert gives an audacious performance as a respected piano teacher whose intellectual rigour masks a predilection for destructive sexual compulsions.
i heart huckabees
Albert Markovski (Marie Antoinette) is an acutely angst-ridden environmental activist railing against corporate greed.
michael cimino's heaven's gate
Cimino's monumentally staged western screens as the restored 225 minute director's cut in glorious Panavision.
saint-cyr
Mazuy's lavishly staged drama takes its title from a boarding school founded in the seventeenth century by Louis the XIV's mistress.
8 femmes (8 women)
Huppert is cast as prim horn-rimmed spinster Augustine, but holds her own in the glamour stakes before the film's denouement.
la vie promise (the promised life)
Huppert is a streetwalker, plying her trade in Nice. Her teenage daughter ditches foster care, determined to restore a bond with her mother.
la cérémonie (the ceremony)
For her fifth screen collaboration with Claude Chabrol, The Venice Film Festival awarded Huppert the Volpi Cup for Best Actress.
comedie de l'innocence
A nine year old boy disturbs the subdued atmosphere of a birthday celebration by announcing that his 'real' mother lives elsewhere.
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Cool, intense and hypnotic, France's most daring contemporary actress is celebrated in a retrospective charting an iconic screen career.
ACMI's Focus on Isabelle Huppert celebrates three decades in a powerhouse film career, from Huppert's star-defining role in Claude Goretta's The Lacemaker in 1977 to her typically fearless performance as a woman exploring the darkest permutations of desire in Christophe Honore's provocative Ma mere, which opens our season.
The retrospective also features films by French auteurs Claude Chabrol (four of the seven features Chabrol and Huppert have made together are represented in the season), Jean-Luc Godard, Maurice Pialat and Diane Kurys as well as collaborations with international filmmakers of distinctive vision including Paul Cox, Michael Cimino, Hal Hartley, Michael Haneke and Olivier Dahan (director of the highly anticipated Edith Piaf musical biopic, La vie en rose).
Fri 29 June - Tue 10 July 2007
Full $13 Concession $10
Six Session Pass: Full $60 Concession $48
Curated by Roberta Ciabarra.
phone (03) 8663 2583
ma mère (my mother)
Honore's provocative film is based on the novel by Georges Bataille.
la dentellière (the lacemaker)
Huppert garnered a Best Newcomer BAFTA for this breakout role, early (and prescient) intimation of a great talent in the making.
sauve qui peut (la vie) (slow motion)
Three disparate souls cross paths in Godard's wry yet beguilingly lyrical rumination on the notion of selling oneself.
loulou
Nelly (Huppert) is married to a hapless advertising exec whose attempts to rein her in only deepen her resolve to skulk away with gadabout, Loulou.
coup de foudre (aka entre nous)
Based on an autobiographical novel by director Diane Kurys, the film re-teams Huppert with the under-rated Marchand, her co-star in Loulou.
cactus
Huppert travelled to Australia to take up the role of Colo, a Frenchwoman in exile from a stifling marriage.
la séparation (the separation)
Huppert gives nuanced expression to the uncertainties and compulsions of a woman who suffers (and inflicts suffering) by her own hand.
merci pour le chocolat (nightcap)
In his seventh on-screen collaboration with Huppert, Chabrol explores the nature of perversity, good and evil within the domain of family.
une affaire des femmes (story of women)
The Venice Film Festival awarded Huppert the Volpi Cup for Best Actress for her role in this film.
madame bovary
Huppert's Emma Bovary is at once coquettish, exasperating, pitiless and ultimately deeply affecting.
le temps du loup (time of the wolf)
A sudden act of violence ruptures every moral certitude Anne (Huppert) and her two children have taken for granted in their middle class lives.
amateur
Huppert approached self-confessed Godard aficionado, Hal Hartley, who jumped at the chance to cast her in one of his deadpan, absurdist films.
la pianiste (the piano teacher)
Huppert gives an audacious performance as a respected piano teacher whose intellectual rigour masks a predilection for destructive sexual compulsions.
i heart huckabees
Albert Markovski (Marie Antoinette) is an acutely angst-ridden environmental activist railing against corporate greed.
michael cimino's heaven's gate
Cimino's monumentally staged western screens as the restored 225 minute director's cut in glorious Panavision.
saint-cyr
Mazuy's lavishly staged drama takes its title from a boarding school founded in the seventeenth century by Louis the XIV's mistress.
8 femmes (8 women)
Huppert is cast as prim horn-rimmed spinster Augustine, but holds her own in the glamour stakes before the film's denouement.
la vie promise (the promised life)
Huppert is a streetwalker, plying her trade in Nice. Her teenage daughter ditches foster care, determined to restore a bond with her mother.
la cérémonie (the ceremony)
For her fifth screen collaboration with Claude Chabrol, The Venice Film Festival awarded Huppert the Volpi Cup for Best Actress.
comedie de l'innocence
A nine year old boy disturbs the subdued atmosphere of a birthday celebration by announcing that his 'real' mother lives elsewhere.
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