If Hollywood has ever mastered one thing, it is turning award season chaos into a full-blown internet hurricane.
The best movies driven by obsession keep viewers riveted and glued to the edge of their seats, even as they are also cautionary tales about how obsession can destroy lives and leave wreckage in its way.
Lindon stars in a trio of featured films, along with the New York premieres of new projects by Olivier Assayas, Isabelle Huppert, and Bertrand Bonello.
Isabelle Huppert and Xiao Dong Guo star in the latest film from writer-director Flora Lau.
Some of Huppert's picks include "Juliet of the Spirits," "Saint Omer," and "Nothing but a Man."
Huppert tells IndieWire about her third collaboration with the tireless Korean director, "A Traveler's Needs," this time with a bare-bones crew and as a character who day-drinks while adrift in Seoul.
The French actor's third collaboration with the prolific Korean auteur is one of the funniest films that either of them have ever made.
Exclusive: Huppert's third film with Hong is a delicate comedy of a French tourist adrift in Korea, opening from Cinema Guild next month.
Huppert talks to IndieWire about the connections between "Babygirl" and "The Piano Teacher" and addresses an alleged feud that occurred with fellow Venice juror James Gray at Cannes in 2009.
The Venice Film Festival launched into its 81st edition with the world premiere of "Beetlejuice Beetlejuice" and words from jury president Isabelle Huppert and Golden Lion honoree Sigourney Weaver.
Huppert will lead the jury at Venice Film Festival, which starts this upcoming Wednesday.
As the success of such fiction demonstrates — including the hit series Baby Reindeer on Netflix — there is an audience hungry to experience, if just vicariously, the thrill and the danger of obsession.
The legendary actress will present the Golden Lion and other awards at the 81st edition of the annual festival.
"It must be nice maybe to be the villain, a real villain, not the villain in most of the films I do."
The Oscar nominee tells IndieWire why she's always still looking for "a dialogue with a director" like Jean-Paul Salomé for her twisty new true-crime thriller, or Paul Verhoeven, whose "Elle" echoes this film.
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