Marianne

Dir. Michael Rozek – 2024 – 93m – Valid for Punch Cards

In MARIANNE, her first one-woman film, the great Isabelle Huppert breaks every rule — playing an unnamed woman who (as she says onscreen) is “not a character,” ignoring conventional narrative by talking directly to the audience for 90 minutes (about virtually everything!), creating a new kind of cinema in the greatest performance of her career—all, in American writer-director Michael Rozek’s groundbreaking debut. Critic Carlos Valladares calls Marianne an “essential film of the 2020’s… a gorgeous, generous film, a species all its own…the promise of cinema, met.”