She’s worked with most of the great names of European cinema, from Godard to Haneke, and on one of Hollywood’s greatest disasters. Now she’s ready for your closeup quizzing
May 2024
The week in theatre: Withnail and I; Spirited Away; Mary Said What She Said; Boys on the Verge of Tears – review
Mary Said What She Said review – Isabelle Huppert dazzles in a one-woman tour de force
March 2024
The best original photographs from the Observer
Original Observer Photography
Isabelle Huppert: ‘I was never the woman behind the man… the only place I could take was the main place’
July 2023
La Syndicaliste review – French sexual abuse thriller takes cheap shots
Isabelle Huppert plays a whistleblower who is assaulted in this crass adaptation of a shocking true story
June 2023
La Syndicaliste review – Isabelle Huppert is fascinating in blood-boiling injustice drama
Isabelle Huppert: ‘When you’re an actor, you keep secrets’
May 2023
‘Bolder than ever’: Cannes fuses film and glamour in unofficial fashion week
Cannes film festival: the best red carpet looks so far – in pictures
March 2023
Ranked
Michael Haneke films – ranked!
The Austrian auteur has made his name with disturbing and superb studies of the violence and repression of bourgeois life. As he turns 81, we rate his finest films
February 2023
Mark Kermode's film of the week
EO review – the bold and the bray from veteran Polish director Jerzy Skolimowski
A circus donkey embarks on a long, lonely journey, meeting human kindness and cruelty, in this strangely beautiful Oscar contender
October 2022
‘For freedom’: French actors cut their hair in support of Iranian women
Mrs Harris Goes to Paris review – Lesley Manville trades her duster for Dior in feelgood froth
September 2022
Mrs Harris Goes to Paris review – Lesley Manville is terrific in Mary Poppins-ish fun
On my radar
On my radar: Claire Denis’s cultural highlights
July 2022
Mrs Harris Goes to Paris review – Lesley Manville charms in light soufflé
The Oscar nominee is on reliably excellent form in a sweet-natured Cinderella tale about a cleaner on a mission to buy a Dior dress
March 2022
Down the rabbit hole
What links this year’s Oscars to Vincent van Gogh and Isabelle Huppert’s daughter?
On the eve of the Academy Awards, follow the rabbit hole from arthouse cinema to art gallery
November 2021
The Glass Menagerie review – Ivo van Hove’s subterranean home blues
Isabelle Huppert stars in a shrewd staging of Tennessee Williams’s autobiographical memory play
July 2021
Avignon festival returns with dazzling tales of eco-terror and cosmic disaster
Isabelle Huppert stars in a stripped back Cherry Orchard and Von Trier’s Dogville gets a magical reimagining at the theatre spectacular
