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Yahoo
20-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Yahoo
Isabelle Huppert Flips the Script With Backward Denim Jacket at Cannes Film Festival 2025
Isabelle Huppert gave the Canadian tuxedo an avant-garde twist for Monday's red carpet of 'Highest 2 Lowest' at the 2025 Cannes Film Festival. The French star sported a denim set by Balenciaga, featuring a light-washed denim jacket worn backward and paired with a long denim skirt. Styled by Jonathan Huguet, Huppert's look also featured distressed elements and a decorative jeweled brooch on the front, as well as sunglasses by Balenciaga. The actress has been a house ambassador for the Spanish brand since 2021. More from WWD Dakota Johnson's Strappy Sandals Echo Her Body-skimming Gucci Dress at Cannes 'Splitsville' Photo Call How Halle Berry's Cannes Stiletto Strategy Marries Sculptural Drama and Elegance for Chopard Universe Gala Lauren Sanchez Embraces High-gloss Glamour in Strapless Gown With Larger Than Life Diamond at Cannes' Global Gift Gala Although unconventional, this is not the first time a celebrity opted to wear a backward jacket on the red carpet. Celine Dion famously wore a backward blazer by John Galliano for the 1999 Oscars. Huppert has a long history with the Cannes Film Festival, both as an acclaimed actress and a style icon. She first appeared at Cannes in the 1970s and quickly became a fixture, starring in films that have competed at the festival more than 20 times. In 2009, she made history as the first female actor to serve as president of the Cannes jury, after previously being a jury member in 1984. In 2025, Huppert was welcomed at the festival as the star of 'La Femme La Plus Riche Du Monde' ('The Richest Woman in the World'), which is inspired by Françoise Bettencourt-Meyers, heir to the L'Oréal fortune. For the premiere of the movie on Sunday, Huppert wore a custom Balenciaga green dress and De Beers jewelry. Hupper also attended the 2025 Kering Women in Motion Awards and Cannes Film Festival Presidential Dinner on Sunday, wearing a black dress from Balenciaga's winter 2025 collection. View Gallery Launch Gallery: Cannes Film Festival 2025 Red Carpet Fashion: Julianne Moore, Mariska Hargitay and More Photos, Live Updates Best of WWD Inside Jackie Kennedy's Three Engagement Rings: Untold Stories of the Love, Loss and Luxury Behind Her Iconic Jewelry Vittoria Ceretti's Runway Modeling & Red Carpet Photos Through the Years [PHOTOS] Zara Tindall's Royal Style Through the Years: Equestrian Influences, Formal Occasions and More, Photos
Yahoo
07-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Yahoo
Tom Neuwirth aka Conchita Wurst, the 2014 Eurovision Winner, Joins Isabelle Huppert in Vampire Movie ‘The Blood Countess' (EXCLUSIVE)
Tom Neuwirth aka Conchita Wurst, the bold Austrian bearded diva who won the 2014 Eurovision Song Contest, will make her acting debut in a twisted vampire mystery, 'The Blood Countess,' starring opposite Isabelle Huppert. Magnify handles global and U.S. sales rights (excluding Austria, Ex-Yugoslavia, Germany, and Luxembourg) on the hot title and has unveiled a striking first-look image (pictured) from the film ahead of the Cannes film market where Austin Kennedy, head of global sales, and Phoebe Liebling, manager of global sales, will be pursuing deals. More from Variety ADVERTISEMENT Directed by renowned German New Wave filmmaker Ulrike Ottinger, 'The Blood Countess' draws inspiration from the life and legend of Countess Elizabeth Báthory, the infamous 16th-century Hungarian noblewoman which is played by Huppert. The screenplay was penned by Ottinger and Elfriede Jelinek, the Nobel Prize in Literature winner and acclaimed author of 'The Piano Teacher.' The film is currently in post-production. The cast is completed by Birgit Minichmayr ('Daughters'), Lars Eidinger ('Dying,' 'Personal Shopper'), Thomas Schubert ('Afire') and André Jung ('The Forger'). Huppert plays the Countess Elizabeth Báthory (aka 'The Blood Countess'), as she awakens from her long beauty sleep and emerges from the underworld. 'She and her devoted maid (Birgit Minichmayr) embark on a baroque quest through Vienna to recover the red elixir of life. The book, if found and read by the vampire's enemies, threatens their vampire realm. Hot on their heels are a vegetarian nephew (Thomas Schubert), his psychotherapist (Lars Eidinger), two vampirologists, a police inspector, and more lively characters in this twisted and humorous vampire tale,' the synopsis reads. Producers are Alexander Dumreicher-Ivanceanu ('Ingeborg Bachmann' – Journey into the desert') of Amour Fou Vienna, Bady Minck ('Hinterland') of Amour Fou Luxembourg, and Bettina Brokemper of Heimatfilm (exec producer on 'The Devil's Bath'). The key crew is lead by cinematographer Martin Gschlacht who notably worked on 'The Devil's Bath' which won the Silver Bear at the Berlinale last year; costume designer Jorge Jara ('Freak Orlando') and production designer Christina Schaffer ('The Girl With a Pearl Earring'). ADVERTISEMENT Ottinger, whose best known films include 'Madame X – An Absolute Ruler,' 'Ticket of No Return' and 'Freak Orlando,' said 'This is the right time for the Blood Countess to wake up from her deep sleep and savor the present' because 'The world is upside down and events are repeating themselves in an eerie way.' Magnify's slate also includes Gastón Solnicki's 'The Souffleur' starring Willem Dafoe; 'Filipiñana,' a first-time feature by Rafael Manuel (with Film4); Berlin Generation winner 'The Botanist' directed by newcomer Jing Yi. Best of Variety Sign up for Variety's Newsletter. For the latest news, follow us on Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram.
New York Times
28-02-2025
- Entertainment
- New York Times
‘Mary Said What She Said' Review: A Hypnotic Huppert
Isabelle Huppert stands upstage center, demurely holding her hands in front of her waist, and starts to speak. She is motionless and in silhouette so we don't see her mouth, creating a sense of dislocation as to where the words we hear are actually coming from. And as we quickly discover, the Robert Wilson production 'Mary Said What She Said' interpolates live and recorded lines. But wait: After a few minutes, Huppert is standing a little closer to the audience. Moments later she is almost downstage. The entire time I could have sworn she wasn't moving. How did she pull off that sleight of hand — or feet? Huppert is playing Mary Stuart and wearing a 16th-century-style dress, which means she can take tiny steps without the audience seeing them, as if she were on casters. This creates the illusion of stillness in motion, or perhaps freeze-framed movement — either way a neat encapsulation of Wilson's art as a theater maker — that contrasts with the simultaneous verbal stream flowing in an almost uninterrupted manner over the course of this 90-minute monologue. (The show is in French with subtitles.) Written by Darryl Pinckney, who drew from the Queen of Scots's letters, 'Mary Said What She Said,' which is at NYU Skirball through Sunday, is inconceivable without Huppert, and she is the reason to see it. She gives a performance of rarefied virtuosity and rigor as she seemingly effortlessly handles the precise blocking and light and audio cues, the swings between immobility and fastidiously choreographed movement, the abrupt changes in tempo and pitch — and of course the dense, nonlinear text full of echoing repetitions, which must be a beast to memorize. Even when she's not moving or speaking, she always needs to be committed to the moment. It is a marvel to behold. This is Huppert's third collaboration with Wilson, after 'Orlando' (1993) and 'Quartett' (seen at the Brooklyn Academy of Music in 2009), so at least she knows his exacting M.O. She was also familiar with the character, having played her in Schiller's 'Mary Stuart' at the National Theater in London in 1996. Pinckney's play, however, is a very different proposition from that classic, dramatic confrontation with Queen Elizabeth I, the rival who had Mary beheaded. Here, Mary is alone with her swirling thoughts as her execution nears; the brilliant costume by Jacques Reynaud features a high collar that creates the optical illusion of a severed head, floating above the torso. With auburn hair pulled back tightly to frame a face painted white and a mouth like a searing slash of red, Huppert's Mary stares down death (uncannily, the actress appears to never blink) as past and present mix in chaotic mental fragments that often reoccur obsessively. She keeps bringing up, for example, her four ladies in waiting ('even you, miserable Mary Fleming') who, in an additional, historically accurate repetition, were all named Mary. We can't say we weren't warned of this obsessiveness: Before the show begins, a short video of a small dog chasing its tail plays on repeat inside a small frame in the middle of the red curtain obscuring the stage. Pinckney has been collaborating with Wilson as a writer and as a dramaturg since the late 1980s (often on monologues and adaptations from literary texts), and he has tailor-made a cryptic script that is hypnotic and maddening. Several times I had no idea what Mary was jabbering on about, yet I was never bored. Partly it was because I was locked inside the show's hermetic world by the elevated production values, which include Wilson's set and lighting, and Nick Sagar's sound design. (I was a little less enthralled by the original score, by the popular Italian neoclassical artist Ludovico Einaudi, but it is not distractingly objectionable.) Mostly, of course, the show exerts a grip because of the charismatic Huppert, the rare actress who can straddle not just film and theater, but also — more important — the mainstream (Florian Zeller's 'The Mother' at the Atlantic Theater) and the extreme (a recent Romeo Castellucci production of 'Bérénice' that baffled even hardened French audiences). And she shows no signs of slowing down despite being about to turn 72: On Monday, she could be taking a day off after her string of 'Mary' performances at Skirball, but instead she is heading uptown to read short stories by Guy de Maupassant at L'Alliance New York. I'll have what she's having.
Yahoo
21-02-2025
- Yahoo
Wisconsin man who experienced medical issue while driving dies two weeks after crash
MINOCQUA, Wis. (WFRV) – A 69-year-old Wisconsin man who became unresponsive while driving due to a medical complication died from injuries sustained in a two-vehicle crash. According to the Minocqua Police Department, officers responded to a two-vehicle crash on February 6 around 11:14 a.m. that occurred on Highway 51 in Minocqua. Wisconsin man killed in fatal head-on crash in Oneida County, another injured A Subaru Outback heading south reportedly crossed the center turn lane and both northbound lanes, striking the side of a Minocqua front-end loader that was plowing the sidewalk. The driver of the Subaru was identified as John Huppert, a 69-year-old from St. Germain, and he was reportedly transported to a hospital before being flown to another facility. It's believed that Huppert had a medical complication that caused him to become unresponsive, crashing into the front-end loader, according to the release. Squirrel exploring breaker box in Wisconsin likely cause of neighborhood power outage Minocqua officials learned that Huppert died on Tuesday, February 18 as a result of the injuries from the crash. No additional details were provided. Copyright 2025 Nexstar Media, Inc. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.
