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Nate Bloom
Special to the Jewish News
HUPPERT’S MOMENT
Two French films starring French actress
Isabelle Huppert, 63, opened in lim-
ited release in the last month: Elle and
Things to Come. Both got great reviews
and Huppert won both the New York
and Los Angeles film critics’ awards for
Huppert
best actress of 2016 — both awards
cited both films in the award citation.
Nothing is certain, but the betting odds
are that Huppert will win the Golden
Globe for Elle (for which she was just
nominated) — and the Oscar for best
actress. (Elle opened last Friday in
Detroit.)
In Elle, Huppert plays a tough career
woman whose father is a serial killer
who’s about to come up for a parole
hearing. Her father’s dark past stops
her from calling the police when she is
raped in her home by a masked assail-
ant. Suffice it to say here, she finds out
who the rapist is and her relationship
with that man takes many surprising
turns.
Huppert’s own father was a wealthy
Jewish manufacturer. Her mother was
Franco
Catholic and she was raised Catholic.
Her parents wed during the Nazi occu-
pation of France, and various sources
say he “laid low” during the war and hid
his Jewish background to avoid depor-
tation. It appears he even hid his back-
ground after the war. To this day, the
actress is very reluctant to talk about
her father’s Jewish background. Typical
is this exchange with a French maga-
zine: “No, it’s my father [not my mother;
who is Jewish]. But I never talk about it
… Because there was silence about it in
my family, and it’s a silence I naturally
Deutch
prolong.” (Huppert’s sister, who is more
open about talking about their father,
seems to be the one who disclosed “the
John Hamburg, 46, and the plot is
family secret.”)
similar to Meet the Parents (2000), which
One might think Huppert would be
Hamburg also co-wrote. James Franco,
more open — she has played a Jewish
38, plays Laird, a video-game billionaire
woman in at least two films (which
who is dating Stephanie (Zoey Deutch,
prompted questions about her own
22). Laird’s vulgar personality turns
background) — and her husband of
off her parents, Barb and Ned (Megan
35 years is producer/director Ronald
Chammah, 60, a Lebanon-born Jew and Mullally and Bryan Cranston). Things go
the father of the couple’s three children. into overdrive when Laird tells them he
intends to propose to Stephanie in five
(One is actress Lolita Chammah, 33,
days. Laird tries everything to win them
who is well-known in France.) I suspect
over while Ned tries anything to get
the Huppert family is carrying the bag-
Laird out of Stephanie’s life.
gage, at least in part, of the twisted
A Variety review mentioned that
wreckage of the Holocaust and its last-
ing psychic affects. Huppert isn’t Jewish; Why Him? is familiar material and
noted that it’s a bit too long. Still,
but her family history is a Jewish story.
it gave it a positive notice, praising
Franco and Cranston’s performances
MEET THE PARENTS: REDUX?
and some consistently funny support-
The comedy Why Him? opened last
ing characters.
Friday. It’s directed and co-written by
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