Following hot on the heels of her masterful work in “Elle,” Isabelle Huppert delivers her second extraordinary performance of the year in “Things to Come,” playing a woman at a point of personal crisis. Huppert is Nathalie, a 60-ish professor of philosophy whose comfortable existence begins to unravel in small but collectively significant ways. Her […]
Isabelle Huppert
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Film review: ‘Elle’
If you’re at all familiar with the career of Paul Verhoeven, from the lurid eroticism of “Basic Instinct” to the bloodsoaked violence of “RoboCop,” you know that the filmmaker takes great pleasure in shocking his audience. Verhoeven’s films have a nihilistic tinge, containing layers of cruelty and inhumanity which the director often presents with a […]
