Isabelle Huppert, the Oscar-nominated star of “Elle,” spoke candidly about her career choices and made the audience laugh with her self-depreciating humor at a masterclass held at the Lumière Film Festival in Lyon.
The French actor, who is also being honored with the fest’s lifetime achievement Lumière prize, revealed that she had seen very few movies when she started acting some 50 years ago.
But that didn’t prevent her from working with some of Europe’s most talented filmmakers, including Claude Chabrol, Michael Haneke and Paul Verhoeven. “We didn’t go to cinemas as much back then,” she said during the on-stage conversation with Lumiere Film Festival’s boss Thierry Fremaux, who is also Cannes chief.
Claire Denis (“White Material”) and Francois Ozon (“8 Women,” “Mon Crime”), who have directed Huppert in several films, were sitting on the front row. “When I started making films, I had seen very few.
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