Isabelle Huppert has a special place in the pantheon of our greatest French actresses. Twice a Cesarian, in 1996 for Claude Chabrol’s La Cérémonie and in 2017 for Paul Verhoeven’s Elle, he finds one of his most striking roles in Jean-Paul Salome’s La Daronne.
In the guise of Patience, a Franco-Arabic legal translator, she plays a woman who becomes a Madonna in the drug-trafficking world, nicknamed “Darona”. Multilingual actress Isabelle Huppert is also an actress who travels between genres. Used to dramatic texts, here he shines in comedy.
France’s national scandal
Soon she would become one of the most famous women in France: Lilian Betancourt. The wealthy heir to the L’Oréal family was at the center of a national scandal in 2007 over tax evasion, wiretapping and illegal financing of Nicolas Sarkozy’s presidential campaign.
This story, well known to the French, will be adapted for the cinema by director Thierry Cliffe. Titled The Richest Woman in the World, this adaptation will focus on “the relationship between a sixty-year-old billionaire and a 27-year-old writer-photographer” – inspired by Francois-Marie Bagnier.
If this synopsis is to be believed, Thierry Clifford’s film will take a lot of liberties. Several names have already been added to the project: Isabelle Hooper as the billionaire, Marina Foys as the heir’s daughter, Laurent Lafitte, Raphael Persson, as well as Andre Marconi.
Along with her other projects, Isabelle Huppert has to work under the direction of the Italian director Dario Argento, one of the figures. gialo – A subgenre of horror. If the actor has confirmed this collaboration, no information indicates the name or synopsis of this new project.
La Daronne airs September 29 at 9:10pm on France 2
Source: Allocine
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