Starring Isabelle Huppert
8 Episodes
Seemingly ageless even as she turns seventy this March, the incomparable French actor Isabelle Huppert is something of a paradox: an enigma who lives in front of the camera, inviting our gaze while maintaining a sense of deep, unknowable mystery. Specializing in portrayals of complex women who transgress social, moral, and sexual boundaries, she has delivered fearless performances for uncompromising auteurs such as Jean-Luc Godard (EVERY MAN FOR HIMSELF), Maurice Pialat (LOULOU), Claude Chabrol (LA CÉRÉMONIE), Michael Haneke (THE PIANO TEACHER), Claire Denis (WHITE MATERIAL), and Mia Hansen-Løve (THINGS TO COME). Each is a captivating display of the singular performance style—so nuanced, ambiguous, and elusive that it’s barely discernible as acting—that has made her a legend in her time.
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00:59Episode 1
Starring Isabelle Huppert Teaser
Episode 1
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1:28:16Episode 2
Every Man for Himself
Episode 2
Directed by Jean-Luc Godard • 1980 • France
Starring Isabelle Huppert, Jacques Dutronc, Nathalie BayeAfter a decade in the wilds of avant-garde and early video experimentation, Jean-Luc Godard returned to commercial cinema with this star-driven work of social commentary, while remaining defiant...
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La truite
Episode 3
Directed by Joseph Losey • 1982 • France
Starring Isabelle Huppert, Jean-Pierre Cassel, Jeanne Moreau“Nowadays, homosexuality and heterosexuality mean nothing. You’re sexual or you’re not.” The penultimate film by iconoclastic director Joseph Losey, LA TRUITE (“The Trout”) is a shrewd study of ...
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1:48:11Episode 4
Story of Women
Episode 4
Directed by Claude Chabrol • 1988 • France
Starring Isabelle Huppert, François Cluzet, Marie TrintignantIsabelle Huppert won the Best Actress prize at the Venice Film Festival for her riveting performance in this tale of wartime survival based on the true story of Marie-Louise Giraud, one of th...
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1:52:15Episode 5
La cérémonie
Episode 5
Directed by Claude Chabrol • 1995 • France, Germany
Starring Sandrine Bonnaire, Isabelle Huppert, Jacqueline BissetClaude Chabrol’s forty-ninth feature stands as the crowning achievement of his prolific career—a coolly riveting study of class dynamics, the psychology of crime, and the sordid se...
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2:11:01Episode 6
The Piano Teacher
Episode 6
Directed by Michael Haneke • 2001 • France
Starring Isabelle Huppert, Benoît MagimelIn this riveting study of the dynamics of control, Academy Award–winning director Michael Haneke takes on Nobel laureate Elfriede Jelinek’s controversial 1983 novel about perverse female sexuality and the world ...
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1:45:54Episode 7
White Material
Episode 7
Directed by Claire Denis • 2009 • France
Starring Isabelle Huppert, Christophe Lambert, Isaach De BankoléIn WHITE MATERIAL, the great contemporary French filmmaker Claire Denis, known for her restless, intimate dramas, introduces an unforgettably crazed character. Played by a ferocious Isabelle...
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EO
Episode 8
Directed by Jerzy Skolimowski • 2022 • Poland, Italy
Starring Sandra Drzymalska, Lorenzo Zurzolo, Mateusz KościukiewiczWith his first feature in seven years, legendary filmmaker Jerzy Skolimowski (DEEP END, MOONLIGHTING) directs one of his most free and visually inventive films yet, following t...