The French Collection Vol. 3 - Isabelle Huppert - 3-DVD Box Set ( La pianiste / Merci pour le chocolat / Trois soirées ) ( The Piano Teacher / Nightcap / Gabrielle )

The French Collection Vol. 3 - Isabelle Huppert - 3-DVD Box Set (DVD) (*)

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Original Title: La pianiste / Merci pour le chocolat / Trois soirées
Alternate Title: The Piano Teacher / Nightcap / Gabrielle
Screened, competed or awarded at:
BAFTA Awards
Cannes Film Festival
Ceasar Awards
European Film Awards
Montreal World Film Festival
Venice Film Festival
Other Film Festival Awards

Language Selections:
English ( Subtitles )
French ( Dolby Digital 2.0 )
French ( Dolby Digital 5.1 )

Product Origin/Format:
United Kingdom ( PAL/Region 2 )

Running Time:
313 min

Aspect Ratio:
Fullscreen

Special Features:
3-DVD Set
Behind the scenes
Box Set
Cast/Crew Interview(s)
Commentary
Deleted Scenes
Documentary
Filmographies
Interactive Menu
Production Notes
Scene Access
Trailer(s)

Movie filmed in 2000 - 2005 and produced in:
Austria ( Germany, Central Europe )
France ( France, Benelux )
Germany ( Germany, Central Europe )
Italy ( Italy, Greece )
Switzerland ( Germany, Central Europe )

Directed By:
Michael Haneke
Claude Chabrol
Patrice Chereau

Written By:
Michael Haneke
Elfriede Jelinek
Claude Chabrol
Charlotte Armstrong
Patrice Chereau
Anne-Louise Trividic

Actors:
Isabelle Huppert ..... Erika Kohut
Annie Girardot ..... The Mother
Benoît Magimel ..... Walter Klemmer
Susanne Lothar ..... Mrs. Schober
Udo Samel ..... Dr. George Blonskij
Anna Sigalevitch ..... Anna Schober
Cornelia Köndgen ..... Mme Gerda Blonskij
Thomas Weinhappel ..... Baritone
Georg Friedrich ..... Man in drive-in
Philipp Heiss ..... Naprawnik
William Mang ..... Teacher
Rudolf Melichar ..... Director
Michael Schottenberg ..... Teacher
Gabriele Schuchter ..... Margot
Dieter Berner ..... Singing teacher
Isabelle Huppert ..... Marie-Claire 'Mika' Muller
Jacques Dutronc ..... André Polonski
Anna Mouglalis ..... Jeanne Pollet
Rodolphe Pauly ..... Guillaume Polonski
Brigitte Catillon ..... Louise Pollet
Michel Robin ..... Dufreigne
Mathieu Simonet ..... Axel
Lydia Andrei ..... Lisbeth
Véronique Alain ..... Madame le Maire
Isolde Barth ..... Pauline
Jacqueline Burnand
François Germond
Antoinette Martin
Michel Moulin
Dorotea Brandin
Isabelle Huppert ..... Gabrielle Hervey
Pascal Greggory ..... Jean Hervey
Claudia Coli ..... Yvonne
Thierry Hancisse ..... The Editor-in-Chief
Chantal Neuwirth ..... Madeleine
Thierry Fortineau ..... Guest
Louise Vincent ..... Guest
Clément Hervieu-Léger ..... Guest
Nicolas Moreau ..... Guest
Rinaldo Rocco ..... The Consul
Xavier Lafitte ..... Guest
Maï David ..... Maid
Jeanne Herry ..... Maid
Aude Léger ..... Maid
Raina Kabaivanska ..... La cantatrice

Synopsis:

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.

The Piano Teacher (2001)
Erika Kohut is a pianist, teaching music. Schubert and Schumann are her forte, but she's not quite at concert level. She's approaching middle age, living with her mother who is domineering then submissive; Erika is a victim then combative. With her students she is severe. She visits a sex shop to watch DVDs; she walks a drive-in theater to stare at couples having sex. Walter is a self-assured student with some musical talent; he auditions for her class and is forthright in his attraction to her. She responds coldly then demands he let her lead. Next she changes the game with a letter, inviting him into her fantasies. How will he respond; how does sex have power over our other faculties?

Nightcap (2000)
After the death of his second wife, concert pianist André Polonski remarries his first wife, Swiss chocolate-company heiress Mika Muller. Soon a young piano student, Jeanne Polet, gets the idea that she may be André's daughter. She visits his house in Lausanne, gets to know André's son Guillaume who was born on the same day as she, and starts taking piano lessons from André. Mika Muller keeps serving them her famous hot chocolate, but with some help from a boyfriend conveniently working in a lab owned by Jeanne's mother, it soon becomes obvious to Jeanne that the chocolate doesn't come straight from the family company's production line.

Gabrielle (2005)
Paris shortly before World War I. Wealthy and self-satisfied, Jean Hervey is returning home from work, describing life with his wife of 10 years, Gabrielle; he values her as impassive and stolid. However, that day she's gone, leaving a letter that she's joining a man she loves. Jean is devastated, but within minutes she's returned, telling him that her resolve has failed. Over the next two days, he questions, demands, begs, and parries with her: why did she leave, why did she return, does she love him, did she ever love him, who is her lover, is she passionate with her lover? She's calm as alabaster, reserved. Is she in danger? When she makes an offer, how will he respond?

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. But when one of Erika's students, the handsome and assured Walter Klemmer (Benoit Magimel), attempts to seduce her, the barriers that she has carefully erected around her claustrophobic world are shattered, unleashing a previously inhibited extreme and uncontrollable desire.

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. After Jeanne discovers that some hot chocolate prepared by Mika for Guillaume has been heavily spiked with a sleeping drug, there is a suspicion that André's wife may have died following a similar concoction prepared by Mika.

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. It is not long before his self-satisfaction is rudely shattered when he discovers a letter from his wife, Gabrielle (Huppert), waiting for him on his sideboard. The contents of the message crumble Hervey's security and plunge him into newfound feelings of vulnerability, abandonment and betrayal. But when a remorseful Gabrielle unexpectedly returns, the scene is set for a confrontation frought with anger, bitterness and revelation that will seal the couple's fate forever.

This product was added to our catalog on Wednesday 08 February, 2012.

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