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Filmming
Location |
Some time in 1984
France |
Date
Released
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1985.02.20
France
1985.08.00
USA
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in France
$372,639
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0000.00.00
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Signé Charlotte (1985)
aka: Sincerely Charlotte
DIRECTOR: Caroline Huppert
CAST: Niels Arestrup; Christine Pascal;
SYNOPSIS
Charlotte,
a beguiling new wave signer. After her boyfriend was murdered in her apartment
and she was fingered as the prime suspect, she flees to the home of former lover,
Mathieu, seeking help. Although living with his fianceé, Mathieu quickly
becomes entangled in Charlotte's web. Succumbing once again to her fatal allure,
Mathieu leaves his quiet life behind and joins her in a wild romp across the French
countryside to Spain.
NOTE
This
is the only film work that Isabelle worked with her sister Caroline. Caroline
never wanted to see Isabelle playing really sad victims, she
created this fatal
child-woman character particular for Isabelle. The two sisters used to be very
close. This film reveals something very nature in Isabelle,
which no one than
Caroline could tell. - FORUM
QUOTE
Isabelle Huppert
"Put
on a new face in 'Charlotte'" by Dan Yakir
Chicago-Sun
Times, August 10, 1986
I'm sick and
tired of playing characters who are associated with sickness and death, or with
immaturity. I just don't want to play victims anymore. I want to play more glamorous
roles, wear more makeup, and generally be more seductive. I used to neglect the
aesthetics of film. Now I intend to be more feminine. I've said my goodbye to
the sickly neurotics I used to play. It's
fun playing a bitch. It's very far away from me. Until now, I had always thought
that an actress had to identify closely with the characters she plays. But here
I'm acting, not getting into psychodramatic situations in order to get closer
to whoever I'm playing. This is much healthier for me. Isabelle
Huppert
"Isabelle
Huppert ...toujours change"
by Danièle Parra
Revue du Cinéma,
April, 1985
I'd already worked in
theater with Caroline in "On ne badine pas avec l'amour". We shares
a real complicity. Curiously, it was shown more uncompromising towards me than
other directors. Since our childhood, we are very close. She possesses of me with
a privileged vision which she transparait on the screen. People who are close
to me find the character is extraordinarily close to me. I was never been like
this in a film and I'm content of it.
Caroline
Huppert
"Giving
Direction 'Sincerely'" by Nacy Mills
Los
Angeles Times, August 6, 1986
We're
very alike, but we're also quite different. When we were little girls, we were
always together. Isabelle was very nervous and afraid of everything. I wasn't
like that, so I could speak to her and tell her, 'Don't be afraid.' I was like
a mother to her although I was only two years older. Part
of Isabelle's talent is that she can be very different every day. She's a changeable
woman, both in 'Sincerely Charlotte' and in life. One day she's happy, the next
day depressed. Sometimes she's very funny, sometimes sad. That was very good for
the story.
AWARD
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TRIVIA
The film was not very successful in France,
but in USA, it got fairly positive reviews.
REVIEW
"The
Huppert Sisters", Paris
Match, September, 1984
Je
n'obeis qu'a ma soeur, Paris
Match,
N°1865, February 22, 1985
"Isabelle
Huppert in 'Sincerely Charlotte'",
New York Times, July 16, 1986
Sincerely
Charlotte, Chicago Reader, 1986 |
