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Martin's Choices
Isabelle's Most memorable Films (in order of the years, Martin's personal favorites with*)
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Going Places (1974)
Director: Bertrand Blier
With: Gerard Depardieu, Patrick Dewaere, Miou Miou....
Only in film for perhaps last 10 minutes, at very end, but she leaves lasting impression in her scene with Gerard Depardieu.
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Lacemaker (1977*)
Director: Claude Groetta
With: Yevs Beneyton, Florence Giorgetti, annemarie Durnger.....
Film that made her an International Star (Official Competition at 1977 Cannes Film Festival).
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Violette Noziere (1978*)
Director: Claude Chabrol
With: Stephane Audran, Jean Carmet, Bernadette Lafont,...
Winner: Best Actress, (1978's) Cannes Film Festival.
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LouLou (1980*)
Director: Maurice Pialat, Guy Marchand...
With: Gerard Depardieu,
Only Film in which she costars with French mega-star Gerard Depardieu, she holds her won easily, and effortlessly demonstrates why she goes against the grain.
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Heaven's Gate (1980)
Director: Michael Cimino
With: Kris Kristofferson, Crhistopher Walken, John Hurt, Sam Waterston...
Her first stab at the U.S., a big question flop, but she's very good in it - Shame
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Coup de Torchon (1981)
Director: Bertrand Tavernier
With: Philippe Noiret, Jean-Pierre Marielle, StephaneAudran
Film was nominated for Oscar's Best Foreign Film, her role is subsidiary to Star Phillippe Noiret, but she's characteristically loose and uninhibited in it - first time I'd call her funny.
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Entre Nous (1983*)
Director: Diane Kurys
With: Miou-Miou, Guy Marchand, Jean-Pierre Bacri, Robin Renucci...
The film that made me interested in her - she's at her most beautiful; also, probably her biggest question in the U.S. (by 2001)
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My Best Friend's Girl (1983)
Director: Bertrand Blier
With: Coluche, Thierry Lhermitte
She is funny in this one, too, a rare sex farce.
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Sincerely Charlotte (1985*)
Director: Caroline Huppert
With: Niels Arestrup, Christine Pascal, Jean-Michel Ribes
Directed by her sister, Caroline - not a great film, a road picture where she's a femme fatale (as usual) but this film gives us a nice slice of her.
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Cactus (1986*)
Director: Paul Cox
With: Robert Menzies, Norman Kaye, Monica Maughan
Another her rare English language film, from Australia - slow-moving, but she's very appealing and sweet in it - something else that's rare!
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Story of Women (1988*)
Director: Claude Chabrol
With: Francois Cluzet, Nils Tavernier, Marie Trintignant, Dominique Blanc
A universally acclaimed film, she is very strong playing another morally qestionable woman, an Abortionist.
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La Separation (1994*)
Director: Christian Vincent
With: Daniel Auteuil, Jerome Deschamps, Karin Viard, Laurence Lerel...
Nice little marital drama, with another French Star - Daniel Auteuil.
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Amateur (1994*)
Director: Hal Hatley
With: Martin Donovan, Elina Lowensohn, Chuck Montgomery...
4th of her English language excursions, this American independent film is not quite spoof of her serious image - a quirky deadpan come by in which only Isabelle provides "feeling", ironic since she's the only foreigner in it.
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La Ceremonie (1995*)
Director: Claude Chabrol
With: Sandrine Bonnaire, Jean-Pierre Cassel, Jacqueline Bisset, Virginie Ledoyen
Doing what she does so well, playing a psycho postal worker. She wins her first French Cesar Acting Award (after 7 previous noms.)
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School of Flesh (1998)
Director: Benoit Jacquot
With: Vincent Martinez, Vincent London, Marthe Keller, Francois Berleand,
Doing what she does so well, playing an older woman who has difficulties getting intimate... with a younger man, of course.
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La Pianiste (2001*)
Director: Michael Haneke
With:Benoit Magimel, Annie Giradot
The much-acclaimed film, she's a psycho music teacher this time.
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