“I like to take these unusual characters and then make them as normal as possible because we all know that the tragedy and the abnormal always hides itself behind the normal.”
✨ Happy birthday to the exceptional Isabelle Huppert, one of the greatest and most fearless actors to ever grace the big screen! ✨
“The way Isabelle Huppert’s face flickers with sudden insecurity and then flailing self-defensiveness as her star pupil lets forth with a distancing critique of her ‘bourgeois lifestyle’ in Things to Come cuts just as deep as the bus ride, the car ride, or anything else in this redoubtable master’s finest performance of the year.”
Isabelle Huppert is astounding in Elle. But she’s even more transcendent in Things to Come.
25 Great Moments from 2016′s Best Female Performances by Matthew Eng
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“My apologies to Damien Chazelle, but this year’s real masterpiece of musical daring was blazed into existence by who else but Beyoncé. And I’m not even talking about Lemonade, a work of such sumptuous cinematic beauty that Parkwood should have skipped right over HBO and went straight to IMAX. Still, Melina Matsouaks’ video for ‘Formation’ galvanizes me very nearly as much, never more so than when it cuts to The Single Most Important Artist of the 21st Century sitting and standing atop that New Orleans cop car: posing, reclining, and raising her first in a confident spectacle of righteous defiance. On a level not unlike watching Isabelle Huppert singlehandedly provide Elle with a reason for being, watching Beyoncé in ‘Formation’ is to fully understand what it means to be in complete control of one’s image, to know one’s strengths and possess the otherworldly ability to transmit all of them as artist and auteur. And activist.” — Matthew Eng
Read: 25 Standout Moments from 2016′s Great Female Performances
