focus on isabelle huppert
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"I don't try to sympathize with my characters, I just try to empathize with them"
Isabelle Huppert
Presented in association with the Sofitel French Rendez-Vous 2007, 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).
In tandem with the film program, ACMI will host an exhibition of photographic portraits of Huppert by distinguished international photographers, on display daily until July 10 in the ACMI Lounge.
Roberta Ciabarra, Curator
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