Isabelle Huppert
1) Frankie
Pub. Date
2020.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (approx. 100 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Unfolding over the course of a late summer's day in the fabled resort town of Sintra, Portugal, this film follows three generations who have gathered for a vacation organized by the family matriarch. In this fairy tale setting, husbands and wives, parents and children, friends and lovers, stirred by their romantic impulses, discover the cracks between them, as well as the unexpected depth of feeling.
Pub. Date
[2017]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (102 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Nathalie is a philosophy teacher with a seemingly settled existence, juggling a rich life of the mind with the day-to-day demands of career and family. But beginning with the bombshell revelation that her husband of twenty-five years is leaving her, one by one the pillars of Nathalie's life start to crumble. For the first time in ages, she finds herself adrift, but also with a newfound sense of liberation. With nothing to hold her back, Nathalie sets...
Series
Criterion collection volume 560
Pub. Date
[2011]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (105 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Maria is an entitled white woman living in Africa, desperately unwilling to give up her family's crumbling coffee plantation despite the civil war closing in on her. A gripping evocation of the death throes of European colonialism and a fascinating look at a woman lost in her own mind.
4) The nun
Pub. Date
[2015]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (112 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
In 1760s France, Suzanne is a beautiful young girl with a natural talent for music, enjoying a quietly privileged life. Inexplicably sent off to a convent, she resists structure at every turn until she discovers that she is an illegitimate child. Left with no other option, she pronounces her vows and suffers the consequences of her mother's sin. Still uncertain of her path and oppressed by aggressive and inappropriate Mother Superiors, Suzanne continues...
5) Amour
Pub. Date
[2013]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (127 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
A touching tale of a loving couple whose unbreakable bonds of marriage are tested by life's greatest challenge.
6) Elle
Pub. Date
2017.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (approximately 131 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Michèle seems indestructible. Head of a successful video game company, she brings the same ruthless attitude to her love life as to business. Being attacked in her home by an unknown assailant changes Michèle's life forever. When she resolutely tracks the man down, they are both drawn into a curious and thrilling game--a game that may, at any moment, spiral out of control.
7) Greta
Pub. Date
[2019]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (approximately 99 minutes) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
A sweet, naive young woman trying to make it on her own in New York City, Frances doesn't think twice about returning the handbag she finds on the subway to its rightful owner. That owner is an eccentric French piano teacher with a love for classical music and an aching loneliness. The two become fast friends, but the older woman's maternal charms begin to dissolve and grow increasingly disturbing as Frances discovers that nothing is what it seems...
8) I Huckabees
Pub. Date
c2004
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (107 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Kindhearted (but confused) poet & activist Andrew Markovski hires a pair of eccentric 'existential detectives' to help him find the meaning of life as he deals with the Huckabees corporation. He soon becomes involved with the detectives' other clients, all the while the detectives' French nemesis is trying to throw a wrench in their plan by seducing Andrew's mind and body.
Pub. Date
2022.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (115 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
In 1950s London, a widowed cleaning lady falls madly in love with a couture Dior dress, deciding she must have one of her own. After working to raise the funds to pursue her dream, she embarks on an adventure to Paris that will change not only her own outlook, but the very future of the House of Dior.