Cheerfully nihilistic, Benoît Jacquot’s Villa Amalia stars Isabelle Huppert as a pianist reinventing her life from scratch on the coast of Naples. O sole mio.
Villa Amalia
Sweet Nothings by Mark Wilshin
CAUTION: Here be spoilers
Isabelle Huppert is as tough as nails; the perfect choice for a heroine combining glamour, guts and grit. So it’s a real shock when [...]
Tags: Antonioni · Benoît Jacquot · Isabelle Huppert · Jean-Hugues Anglade · L'Avventura · Pascal Quignard · Villa Amalia
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