She’s been called France’s Meryl Streep.
“All of that makes it exceptionable and particularly worthwhile to be happy about.”
“I think the film is very daring in the way it analyzes this woman’s reaction.
It doesn’t show a woman as people think she should be.
It shows a woman who is true to herself.
That is important.”
Her character’s actions prompted her to bring up the Women’s March from the past weekend.
“I wish I could have been at the Women’s March some days ago,” says Huppert.
“I think these things are very important.
It gives voice to women: who they are, what they think, what they fight for.”
“This film has this depth and integrity that people are relating to,” she adds.
“Verhoeven disturbs you, in the good sense, but he makes you think.
There is a lot of integrity in his manner and he takes people beyond that.
You may be scared but you think about something too.”
Come Oscar Sunday, the Academy may just be thinking about Huppert too.
