Isabelle Huppert took acting lessons at the age of fourteen, later she made various films with Claude Chabrol. Today Isabelle Huppert is 68 years old and the grande dame of European film.
In total, Huppert has shot around 150 feature films, TV productions and series. Twice she received the French César (“Beasts”, “Elle”), received the Silver Bear at the Berlinale (“8 Women”), the Silver Palm in Cannes (“Violette Nozière”, “The Piano Player”) and an Oscar nomination for “Elle”.
And on Tuesday there was also the Berlinale’s Honorary Golden Bear for her life’s work. “I see my job as an inner expedition, at the end of which, if you’re lucky, you reach the other person,” she once said of her work.
Actually, she should and wanted to come to the Berlinale, she was not particularly afraid of infections while traveling, as she said in an interview in 2020. “Even at home, in your own neighborhood, it can happen to you.”
And that’s probably where Corona apparently reached them. But because she is doing well, she was connected via video from Paris when Lars Eidinger (46) gave the laudatory speech. Both act in the film “À propos de Joan” – he plays her lover.