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Post by pacinoyes on Mar 15, 2020 23:14:56 GMT
Well, it's after midnight in France so why not......
67 years old - born March 16th, 1953 I will one day legally have to change my name to huppertyes....or maybe huppert eyes........ I haven't decided......  |
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Post by Mattsby on Mar 16, 2020 1:21:08 GMT
 (a perfect gif from The Lacemaker) HBD To the greatest screen actress of all-time, and the only actress I've seen on stage more than once! (She was brilliant in both, of course) |
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Post by Tommen_Saperstein on Mar 16, 2020 4:11:13 GMT
I must see more of her stuff.
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Post by TerryMontana on Mar 16, 2020 6:22:15 GMT
Happy birthday.
I must see more of her...
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Post by ibbi on Mar 16, 2020 9:59:45 GMT
GOAT!
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Post by Longtallsally on Mar 16, 2020 17:02:59 GMT
HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO ONE OF THE GREATEST  |
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Post by DanQuixote on Mar 16, 2020 21:02:03 GMT
The very best, bar none.
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Post by Mattsby on Mar 31, 2020 0:27:46 GMT
Let's post our fav perfs! Here's 20 , still haven't seen a lot..... Malina La Ceremonie The Piano Teacher The Lacemaker Story of Women Loulou Violette La Separation School of Flesh Things to Come Elle Greta 8 Femmes Coup de Torchon Gabrielle Heaven’s Gate In Another Country Merci pour le Chocolat The Romanoffs: House of Special Purpose Eaux Profondes Amazing that such a strong perf like White Material could be left off - most wouldn't, I shouldn't, but I did?? Malina I wanna single out - a difficult, dense watch - all the Lynch fans here might have more of a taste for it than I do - but it's arguably essential anyway bc it might be her most impressive perf -  ! How many performances can you say have a genuine dangerous feeling to them? It's a remarkable physical work of extremes - a body, stressed and frenzied, out of sync with its intentions. She's at times harrowing, and at times hilarious.... Never seen a perf like it, maybe a close mix would be Rowlands in Woman Under the Influence with Adjani's Possession freakouts.  |
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Post by pacinoyes on Mar 31, 2020 10:01:58 GMT
In addition to the top 20 Mattsby list I'd like to highlight 2 deceptive turns by her if people haven't seen them - not great films maybe but when you take them into her filmography they show you how many colors are in her acting palette to draw from. She's like very few actors male or female - all GOAT level - Depardieu, Pacino, Streep and sort of what Haenel is building towards at just 31 (damn): Huppert has so many performances touched by a kind of genius that you lose the ability to define them by her mere high points. She is impossible to assess simply or quickly and the deeper you look at her the more she dazzles (almost all actors reveal their "tricks" in (at most) 10 performances - Huppert becomes thrillingly inscrutable far beyond that number). Sincerely Charlotte (1985) directed by her sister Caroline Huppert has one of her most beguiling turns (5.5 on IMDB, GTFO) as a new-wave singer (!) opposite Niels Arestrup in a film that isn't entirely focused but is a very different, charismatic turn (for fun, you could totally picture Haenel in this role too) - this is the French equivalent of a high concept star turn. The Swindle (1997) - One of the lesser known films in her collaborations with Chabrol - who to me brought out her full range (not Haneke though he's great for her too) - this movie allows her to offer slight variations on what we thought we knew of her - and this is 20+ years ago she was already a legend then. In her rogues' gallery of characterizations it's a must see performance. I always read it as Chabrol's love letter to her and to their collaborations - and it's a deeply felt old man/younger woman story too - how he grants her wisdom and she granted him a new perspective too.   |
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Post by Mattsby on Mar 16, 2021 18:41:35 GMT
 HBD Légende. 68 & Great. My fav new-to-me perfs I've seen since last posting are Home (2008) and Entre Nous (1983). Here she is wearing Gucci (cough we dunno who's playing the clairvoyant confidante role yet cough) 
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Post by pupdurcs on Mar 16, 2021 18:51:15 GMT
Happy Birthday to Isabelle Huppert, who was ranked the Greatest Actress Of The 21st Century not too long ago by the New York Times. Not too shabby.
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Post by pacinoyes on Mar 16, 2021 19:26:00 GMT
How great is she? Well, I didn't see an Isabelle Huppert movie in 2021 and I still saw a great performance by Isabelle Huppert in 2021 (Call My Agent).  |
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Post by TerryMontana on Mar 16, 2021 19:42:12 GMT
Happy birthday to a great actress!!!
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Post by therealcomicman117 on Mar 17, 2021 2:56:34 GMT
Happy birthday to one of the greatest living actress. Hard to think of a specific favorite performance of hers for me. I love her work in Things to Come though, it's even greater then the other 2016 film she did Elle, which got her the Oscar nom.
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Post by Mattsby on Mar 17, 2022 19:28:54 GMT
Happy 69th! Lil late but that's okay. My biggest regret of 2021 was missing her one time only live stream, and English-subbed, Glass Menagerie.... 
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Post by Mattsby on Mar 16, 2023 20:37:17 GMT
Happy 70th!Favorite new-to-me-Huppert since last birthday: Lady of the Camelias (1981) Looking forward to her upcoming movies with Ozon and André Téchiné.  
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Post by ibbi on Mar 16, 2023 20:53:32 GMT
Happy 70th to the GOAT. Long may she reign. Though not even she could save the human scenes in EO.
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Post by TylerDeneuve on Mar 16, 2023 21:02:11 GMT
My favorite film she has ever starred in! Mauro Bolognini is so underrated.  Edit: Can you believe she's never had a Vogue Paris cover until last year?! Deneuve, Adjani, Rampling all have multiple...  |
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Post by pacinoyes on Mar 16, 2023 21:19:58 GMT
The greatest ever to do it - and just a reminder - her unbelivably dark and unsettling peformance in My Little Princess (2011) in the hard af to watch movie - is still available on Youtube ...........but with only Russian subtitles - so if you're French and never saw it - or your French is good - HELENA MARIA or your Russian is good maybe.... JangoB ? Or if you can track down a English subtitled dvd ....it's something to see....... I also like her because she has rules ......and would likely punish me if I broke her rules or ask me to punish her - which would be pretty weird............ but perfectly acted ....and also I bet for music she likes Punk and follows the pacinoyes rules most of the time: short songs when possible, preferably without keyboards except when absolutely necessary - songs about girls mostly, with as few solos as possible .....maybe I'm idealizing her too much  |
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Post by VERITAS on Mar 16, 2023 22:34:49 GMT
A bit late, but happy birthday to this master enchantress of serving face in every role she devours. Shall be listening to the Elle soundtrack then revisiting her award-worthy performance in Greta later today to celebrate...
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Post by futuretrunks on Mar 17, 2023 0:58:40 GMT
Said it before, but I find her reputation baffling. The Piano Teacher is mind-bogglingly great Pacino in The Godfather/The Godfather Part II or Ledger in TDK or Leigh in Streetcar level work, but she's just a meh ice queen in so many other things, or not even necessarily that in affect but still fairly nondescript. I don't even care for Streep that much, but I get her reputation based on how wildly some of her performances can differentiate themselves from each other (Sophie's Choice, Silkwood, The Iron Lady, and Adaptation. for example). I watch Greta, and I'm like "This is kind of like Elle", and on and on. I watch something like La Ceremonie, and I'm like "If I remove La Pianiste is she even a better actress than Rebecca Hall, much less the GOAT???" It's just ordinary. I speak from not having seen all of her work, but I have seen her in like a dozen things.
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Post by Joaquim on Mar 17, 2023 13:22:43 GMT
She should be honored to share a birthday with me
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Post by HELENA MARIA on Mar 18, 2023 12:19:10 GMT
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Post by pacinoyes on Mar 18, 2023 12:38:02 GMT
HELENA MARIA - Well Streep and Blanchett on film - I really do think you can claim Blanchett as being close to the tier with them.....at one time I'd have said Haenel but alas, she's left film because of men - ugh, men are the worst ammirite? - Haenel could have easily played her daughter and like Huppert - her greatness was in the totality not a single role like you do with most actors For men - I think the time for DePac to work with her has passed (she loves both actors and has said as much)........but she's a very playful actress - Michel Serrault was a great foil for her - so along those same lines - I think she could do something with Ralph Fiennes who can be funny in unexpectedly weird ways, has the technical chops but isn't a slave to a brand, or the script even.....someone like that - a great technical actor .........who is also at least as weird as they are gifted  She likes Bradley Cooper - I know she's said some nice thngs about him...... I've said this before - the "early 80s Modigliani" film that Scorsese was going to do with Pacino - would have allowed her to play opposite Pacino as Modigliani's lover Jeanne Hébuterne - if she was cast - that could have been great: 
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Post by TylerDeneuve on Mar 20, 2023 18:34:13 GMT
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! How many performances can you say have a genuine dangerous feeling to them? It's a remarkable physical work of extremes - a body, stressed and frenzied, out of sync with its intentions. She's at times harrowing, and at times hilarious.... Never seen a perf like it, maybe a close mix would be Rowlands in Woman Under the Influence with Adjani's Possession freakouts.
