Acteurist Spotlight – Isabelle Huppert – Part 2: UNE AFFAIRE DE FEMME (1988) and THE PIANO TEACHER (2001)

For our second Isabelle Huppert Acteurist Spotlight we have another first encounter with an auteur, Claude Chabrol, with the unfortunately translated Story of Women (1988), and take on Huppert's iconic performance in the also inaccurately translated The Piano Teacher (2001). Be prepared for harrowing subject matter and enigmatic behaviour as we discuss the inescapability of moral complicity, sexual aberration, and anti-romance. Then things get slightly lighter in Fear and Moviegoing in Toronto with our discussion of a 4K restoration of Howard Hawks' comedy masterpiece His Girl Friday. Time Codes: 0h 00m 25s: UNE AFFAIRE DE FEMME aka STORY OF WOMEN (1988) [dir. Claude Chabrol] 0h 27m 11s: LA PIANISTE (2001) aka THE PIANO TEACHER [dir. Michael Haneke] 0h 56m 19s: Fear and Moviegoing in Toronto – Howard Hawks' His Girl Friday (1940) at The Revue Cinema ( Designing the Movies series) +++ * Listen to our guest episode on The Criterion Project – a discussion of Late Spring * Marvel at our meticulously ridiculous Complete Viewing Schedule for the 2020s * Intro Song: "Sunday" by Jean Goldkette Orchestra with the Keller Sisters (courtesy of The Internet Archive ) * Read Elise's piece on Gangs of New York – "Making America Strange Again" * Check out Dave's Robert Benchley blog – an attempt to annotate and reflect upon as many of the master humorist's 2000+ pieces as he can locate – Benchley Data: A Wayward Annotation Project!

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Acteurist Spotlight – Isabelle Huppert – Part 2: UNE AFFAIRE DE FEMME (1988) and THE PIANO TEACHER (2001) is an episode from Another Kind of Distance: A Time Travel, Twin Peaks, Film, Doom Patrol and Nostalgia Podcast by Dave.

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This episode was published on May 15, 2026.

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