‘Greta’ Trailer: Isabelle Huppert Is Obsessed With Chloe Grace Moretz

Isabelle Huppert is something of a legend in her native France, with 16 César nominations (the most for any actress) over a career spanning more than forty years. Despite this and a handful of appearances in English-language films like “I Heart Huckabees” and “Heaven’s Gate,” she was somewhat unknown in America (at least to non cinephiles) until her leading role in Paul Verhoeven’s “Elle,” which garnered her both a Golden Globe and an Oscar nomination for Best Actress in 2017. Huppert returned to English-language with “Greta,” at the Toronto International Film Festival earlier this year and now it’s coming to us, via Focus Features in 2019.

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Directed by the underrated Neil Jordan (“Michael Collins,” “The Crying Game”) and written by Jordan and Ray Wright, “Greta” is a thriller much in the same vein as “Elle,” and could prove to be as successful for Huppert as the latter film. Either way, the film should prove to further raise Huppert’s profile stateside, and should (hopefully) lead to more English-language roles for her in the future.

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You can read the synopsis below.

A sweet, naïve young woman trying to make it on her own in New York City, Frances (Chloë Grace Moretz) doesn’t think twice about returning the handbag she finds on the subway to its rightful owner. That owner is Greta (Isabelle Huppert), an eccentric French piano teacher with a love for classical music and an aching loneliness.  Having recently lost her mother, Frances quickly grows closer to widowed Greta. The two become fast friends — but Greta’s maternal charms begin to dissolve and grow increasingly disturbing as Frances discovers that nothing in Greta’s life is what it seems in this suspense thriller from Academy Award®-winning director Neil Jordan.

Some of Jordan’s best work has come in the thriller genre, so it’ll be interesting to see how he updates his approach to it. Co-starring along with Huppert and Moretz is Maika Monroe, Colm Feore, and Jordan’s longtime collaborator Stephen Rea.

Focus Features opens “Greta” on March 1, 2019.