'Claire's Camera' Trailer: Isabelle Huppert Wants To Take Your Picture

Lately, Hong Sang-soo films arrive in multiples. The director just unveiled his latest effort, “Grass,” at the Berlin International Film Festival, just as one of the three movies he premiered last year, “Claire’s Camera,” opens stateside. If the future is a Hong Sang-Soo cinematic universe, I’m all for it.

Starring Isabelle Huppert, Kim Min-hee and Jung Jinyoung, the story follows the unlikely friendship formed between a French school teacher and Korean film sales assistant who meet in Cannes. Here’s the official synopsis:

A refreshingly sunny performance from Isabelle Huppert (The Piano Teacher, Elle) is at the center of this comic charmer from South Korean Master Hong Sangsoo. Huppert plays Claire, a school teacher with a camera (that might be magical) on her first visit to Cannes. She happens upon a film sales assistant, Manhee (Kim Minhee), recently laid off after a one-night stand with a film director (Jung Jinyoung). Together, this unlikely pair become detectives of sorts, as they wander around the seaside resort town, working to better understand the circumstances of Manhee’s firing—and developing new outlooks on life in the process. 

Intricately plotted with wit and charm to spare, CLAIRE’S CAMERA explores the power of images to transform us. “The only way to change things,” says Claire, “is to look at them again very slowly.” 

“Claire’s Camera” opens on March 9th.