The actress sat down with Japan's rising arthouse star Ryusuke Hamaguchi for a conversation about the actor's craft on the second day of the Tokyo International Film Festival.
With over 100 film credits to her name, two Cannes best actress wins and an Academy Award nomination, Huppert requires little introduction. She has collaborated with many of the great international filmmakers of her generation, including Jean Luc-Godard, Claude Chabrol, Michael Haneke, Hong Sang-soo, Paul Verhoeven, Andrzej Wajda, David O. Russell and over a dozen others.
Hamaguchi replied that he felt as if his “brain were melting” to be sharing the stage with the actress. “When you act, Ms. Huppert, your expressions are very nuanced. Sometimes there’s an explosion of emotion, but there’s a certain stillness that runs through the films that you appear in. You harbor the ability to explode at any minute, which is a remarkable achievement.
“I read somewhere that they were amateurs, is that true?” she added, to which Hamaguchi said yes. “That’s extraordinary,” Huppert went on. “It’s an amazing thing to see amateurs act in such a professional way — it feels like we professionals should just stop. Those women didn’t feel like actors. That type of innocence is something we professionals always want to recapture.”
Hamaguchi said his own former film teacher, the great Japanese director Kiyoshi Kurosawa, always told him that the essence of filmmaking is simply deciding where to place the camera, and when to begin and stop recording. “As I work with my own actors,” he added, “I realize that film is made of this intricate dialogue between the actor and the camera.”
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