From 1977's The Lacemaker to 1998's The School Of Flesh, Isabelle Huppert has specialized in playing seemingly impenetrable women who gradually become unhinged, revealing depths of emotion only barely ...

Some characters require endless rounds of tinkering and rewriting before they assume a convincing life of their own. Others spring fully formed from some surprising and hitherto unknown corner of a ...

My experience at the Kitchen Theatre Company’s The Piano Teacher was so disorienting that I find it quite difficult to put my feelings to words, however I will try, for all the good in me that seeks ...

When you see “The Piano Teacher” in a movie theater you get a chance to go back in time, back to the days when French movies were titillating, provocative and kind of smart — when foreign cinema was a ...