The French Collection Vol 3: Isabelle Huppert (3 DVD)

The Piano Teacher (2001) The Piano Teacher: Isabelle Huppert gives a performance of astounding emotional intensity as Erika Kohut, a repressed woman in her late thirties who teaches piano at the Vienna Conservatory and lives with her tyrannical mother (Annie Girardot), with whom she has a volatile love-hate relationship. Nightcap (2000) Merci Pour Le Chocolat: Mika inherits a gloomy mansion near Lausanne after marrying André, a concert pianist and recent widower with a son, Guillaume. Jeanne, a young beauty, turns up on their doorstep with a story that Guillaume and she may have been given to the wrong families following a hospital confusion at birth. She is a talented pianist and soon André is tutoring her as a protegée. Gabrielle (2005) Gabrielle: Recreating turn-of-the-century France with superb attention to detail, Chéreau casts an unrelenting gaze on the marital breakdown that overwhelms a middle-aged bourgeois couple, played with chilling precision by Isabelle Huppert and Pascal Greggory. While on his way home, the wealthy Parisian Mr. Hervey (Greggory), reflects on the sturdiness and success of his life and the fortress of security he has built around himself. SCREENED/AWARDED AT: BAFTA Awards, Cannes Film Festival, Ceasar Awards, European Film Awards, Montreal World Film Festival, Venice Film Festival, ...The French Collection Vol. 3 - Isabelle Huppert - 3-DVD Box Set ( La pianiste / Merci pour le chocolat / Trois soirées ) ( The Piano Teacher / Nightcap / Gabrielle )