Gabrielle - Selected by Venice Film Festival
2005.08.18
Gabrielle is selected
in competition at The
62nd Venice International Film Festival.
The film,
directed by Patrice Chéreau and
starred by Isabelle and Pascal
Greoggry, is scheduled to premier on September
10th. The film will be distributed by Mars
Films and
will be released in France on September 28.
(Europe
Press) The French
actress Isabelle Huppert will
present, in the Lliure Theater
of Barcelona
on May 4 and 5, the tragic 'Hedda
Gabler', of
Erik Ibsen, directed
by Eric
Lacascade, of which tickets
have been sold out.
Huppert explained,
at the press conference, that the personage of Hedda
is "intangible" and "complex" and
that, like in all great the classic ones, can "be
discovered infinitely" since they do not finish "defining
itself".
On the other hand, Isabelle
Huppert assured that she
is preparing a new film next to the director Claude
Chabrol, who will initiate his film in September
and she will play an instruction judge. 'Gabrielle',
directed by Patrice Chéreau,
will release in September in France and will premiere
in the upcoming Festival of Venice.
The film is shown at Anthology
Film Archives on May
4 and May 7,
in New York City. In one of the rare
truly visual films about writers, the director Werner
Schroeter generates extravagant
images to match the insights of the nameless writer
he films—played with ferocious precision by Isabelle
Huppert and dubbed into German by the early Wim
Wenders muse Lisa
Kreuzer. The creative frenzy of the mentally
disintegrating poet—she writes in fury her
oeuvre in ten thousand letters, leading her lover Malina to
declare, “To you,
mail is like a grenade with the pin out”—is
matched by Schroeter’s
onrushing tracking shots, action darting into frame,
and expressive lighting (the camerawork by Elfi
Mikesch is original
and brilliant). Working with a sharply lyrical adaptation
by the 2004 Nobel Prize winner Elfriede
Jelinek of Ingeborg
Bachmann’s cult novel, Schroeter follows
the exquisite associative logic of poetry and madness.
While at a children’s film with another
lover and his young sons, the poet dreams, and the
fantasy sequence that results is breathtaking. Her
story ends with a mirror game as intricate as the
one in “The Lady from Shanghai,” but
to more quietly devastating effect. In German. Released
in
1991.—Richard Brody (The
New Yorker, May 02, 2005).
"Act
French - A Season of New Theater from France"
2005.04.25
As you may know that "Gabrielle",
directed by Patrice Chéreau
and starred by Isabelle and Pascal
Greoggry, wasn't
made to Cannes
Film Festival this year. However, life is still
going on. Isabelle will
soon play a judge in Chabrol's
next film - La Comedie du
Pouvoir with François
Berléand, and start "Maryna" (was "In
America" by Susan
Sonnatag) a few month later. (go Forum
- New Films)
It's also announced by l’Association
française d’Action artistique (AFAA) that,
from July 15 to December
15, a series of Contemporary French
Theater will be brought to New York City, including "4.48
Pshychose" - directed by Claude
Régy and starred Isabelle.
"Act
French: A Season of New Theater From France" -
this so-called ambitious and elective festival, will present
20 French theaters to
New Yorkers, with
many great French theater directors and talented actors.
You may check the schedule at http://www.actfrench.org,
though it's not announced yet. The tickets will start on
sale on-line on June 15, 2005.
Ma
Mère will release
on DVD on April 26 in UK and April
29 in France. "Hedda
Gabler" will continue at Square
du Théâtre -
14200 Herouville-Saint-Clair, from May
18 to 22. And "I
Heart Huckabees" is open
in France on April 27.
In the past, Isabelle was
nominated for Molière
Best Actress Award 4 times
- in 1989 for One
Month in the Country, in 1994 and 1995 for Orlando,
and in 2001 for Medée,
but has never won.
As an actively working film actress & star, Isabelle remains
constant working at theater as well - with 3 plays (Medée, Psychose
4.48 & Hedda
Gabler) in
the past 5 seasons - two of them received Molière
Nomination! She could have received the third nome
for 4.48
Psychose, if it had not been scandalously ignored
by the professionals in 2003. Besides almost
all kinds of film awards ever given to her, this
award in theater would definitely pay a
special
tribute to her already-amazing career. We wish
this time she would triumph. (to discuss, go to FORUM).
Meeting Isabelle Huppert
in Caen, France
2005.04.02
(Loraine)
On Saturday, Gorgias, I and a friend went to Caen,
a town in the north west
of France, to attend a session of Voir Ensemble
- Carte Blanche à Isabelle
Huppert with her
participation, at Café des
Images, Hérouville
Saint-Clair. First, we watched “Une
Affaire de Femme” by Claude
Chabrol - a film still very
deeply moving. It is the first time that I saw it on
a big screen. To me, it changes the way of seeing
a film,
very insensitive. The point
of
fallowing review rather tries to transcript my
mood.
She arrived, obviously
a bit tired by the journey - traveling
through
the country must
be exhausting! She was in front
of us, assisted by Jean
Michel Frodon who is the “director de
la publication” for Les
Cahiers du Cinéma. The
first questions were about the film we had just seen.
She spoke about Claude
Chabrol, the fact that they
know each other so well that they don't need to speak
(to understand each other). She described their relationship
as the importance of “the
strength of the imagination”. Chabrol was
a “Flaubertien”. His direction "takes
you". She
felt secured when Chabrol was
directing. To them, the camera as only one place in
the room and if this camera is
ok, the scene will be perfect.
She also spoke about Haneke,
how he was tough on the preparation of the scene,
that he could make
45 takes before choosing one whereas, Chabrol don’t
really care about the choice of the take. On top of
that, she talked about Pialat and
the fact that he used to leave the camera rolling even
after “cut” had
been called in order not to miss a great scene. Anyway,
she agreed on the fact that, the real power was on
the hand of the director.
Then,
she came to speak about her characters, why she was
attracted by the “anti heroines”.
The characters that are on the edge of life, that they
are the product of a situation they almost never control.
Then people started
to ask her questions. To put in a nutshell, she said
that she was happy that Olivier
Dahan thought of her for the part in La
Vie Promise; A woman asked her about making a new
film with Catherine Frot,
she laughed, and said it would be a pleasure,
because “Catherine
only makes films that work!”; She said
she started studying with Jean-Laurent
Cochet, who was a great
teacher;
She also said that she didn’t know the word “characters"
because she is. Then, she spoke about cinema, theatre
and her new film, “Gabrielle” directed
by Patrice Chéreau
which will be released in France in September. She
said that Patrice Chéreau knew
the actors very well, and he carried her out of the
way she was
walking in.
We all knew the story
of the film and she told us that she would have played
the part in a certain
way, but P. Chéreau leaded
her to another stage of acting. She seemed really
thrilled about this film. I want to say that I’ve
never seen her, before, talking like that about other
films. It will be a new Isabelle on
the screen…I can’t wait!!
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Every word written and
complied here is simply from the souls of her honest fans, and their fantasies
on this respectful and great actress in the world.
