Union representative Maureen Kearney, Huppert’s real-life role in her latest film, Jean-Paul Salomé’s La Syndicaliste, was sexually assaulted, scarred and tied up in her home shortly before ...
Set in post-Second World War France, the film stars Reda Kateb as Jan Bojarski, a Polish refugee in France who forged ...
La Syndicaliste also highlights Huppert’s subtle skills of internalised thought, communicating character though her face barely flickers, like a Gallic, dramatic Buster Keaton. “Sometimes in movies, ...