Brooklyn Hearts Huppert

Europe’s grande dame of cinema finds her American niche. Huppert in Robert Wilson’s video-portrait homage to Edward Steichen’s 1928 photograph of Greta Garbo. Video Portrait by Robert Wilson For Isabelle Huppert, American fame has never been in the cards. At 56, the European superstar is fast approaching 100 career films, and her Streep-size trophy case loudly broadcasts her priorities: two Cannes Best Actress awards, a Cesar, a BAFTA, two European Film Awards, two Volpi cups (from Venice), a Silver Bear (Berlin), and a Crystal Globe (Czech Republic)—and not one Tony, Emmy, or Oscar. She once guest-edited Cahiers du Cinéma, for heaven’s sake. Yet her best-known Hollywood credit is probably I Heart Huckabees. That’s if you’re not counting the film that was supposed to make her a star here, the 1980 bomb-to-end-all-bombs... [read full story]                    

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