Starring Isabelle Huppert. A French woman loses her income and ends up in Korea drinking makgeolli. There, she begins teaching French to two Korean women, forging quiet connections across cultures.
A cold and repressed piano teacher leads a double life away from her mother. After falling in love with one of her students, a game of seduction and power is unleashed. With 22 nominations at international festivals, the movie won Best Actor, Best Actress, and the Jury Prize at Cannes. And if that weren't enough, director Michael Haneke once again teams up with Isabelle Huppert after the perverse drama of 'Happy End'.
Isabelle Huppert gives a powerful performance portraying a tough woman in the business world who has many layers and faces an unexpected situation. For this reason, she was nominated for an Oscar in 2017.
Independent filmmaker Ira Sachs ("Love Is Strange") leaves his usual New York City settings for his first European-based movie, "Frankie," selected in Cannes Film Festival and Los Cabos International Film Festival in 2019. In a line very similar to Roberto Rossellini's "Journey to Italy," Richard Linklater's "Before Sunrise," or Woody Allen's Euro-centric "To Rome with Love" or "Midnight in Paris;" this film makes the picturesque city of Sintra a beautiful canvas on which it paints melancholic interactions between spouses, lovers, ex-lovers, friends, and parents and children. Even if Sachs doesn't reach the heights of said references, he delivers an emotionally charged drama and masterfully acted by an international all-star cast led by great Isabelle Huppert ("The Piano Teacher"), Greg Kinnear ("Little Miss Sunshine"), Marisa Tomei ("The Wrestler"), Brendan Gleeson ("Gangs of New York"), and Jérémie Renier ("The Kid with a Bike"), to name a few.
Neil Jordan, of 'Interview with the Vampire', has been producing less and less - 'Greta' is only his second movie in the 2010s, after 'Byzantium: An Eternal Life' and the series 'The Borgias'. This time, the director embarks on a story about an older woman's strange obsession with a young girl, with touches of thriller and horror. Unfortunately, the final result is uneven, alternating good moments with others that seem, unfortunately, an involuntary comedy. Still, the attempt to address deeper themes stands out and the cast, composed of Isabelle Huppert ('Elle') and Chloë Grace Moretz ('Kick Ass'), who in recent years have chosen more complex roles in independent productions.