James Woodall

Spellbound | 2 June 2016

The French legend brings the most sexually unhinged French drama in years to the Barbican next week. She explains what it takes to tackle this epic

issue 04 June 2016

Isabelle Huppert does nothing by halves. And she doesn’t, I think, care greatly for journalists. She expects them to ask stupid questions. Sitting before me in an airless room in the eaves of Paris’s Odéon-Théâtre de l’Europe, she is tiny, dressed entirely in black and more or less unsmiling.

Lily-skinned, red-haired, and with a fabulous curl in her upper lip, she’s appeared in more than 100 film and TV productions.

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