Bisset vamps it up as a white-haired femme fatale in this amusing and atmospheric French mystery
At one point in this loopy French thriller, Elizabeth, the antagonist landlady played by Jacqueline Bisset, gets herself all gussied up with loads of slap and a slinky dress just to show off to her lodger Julie (Alice Isaaz), whom she considers a rival. “Not bad for a 73-year-old lady, eh?” she asks, and indeed no one could possibly disagree. Bisset looks fantastic here, vamping it up as a more than slightly deranged white-haired femme fatale who walks with a cane in orthopaedic shoes and likes to make her own steak and kidney pie.
Bisset is clearly having fun with the role, as is director Baptiste Drapeau, who tips his hat not exactly to Alfred Hitchcock or Claude Chabrol, but more precisely to Claude Chabrol paying tribute to Alfred Hitchcock (think Le Beau Serge...
At one point in this loopy French thriller, Elizabeth, the antagonist landlady played by Jacqueline Bisset, gets herself all gussied up with loads of slap and a slinky dress just to show off to her lodger Julie (Alice Isaaz), whom she considers a rival. “Not bad for a 73-year-old lady, eh?” she asks, and indeed no one could possibly disagree. Bisset looks fantastic here, vamping it up as a more than slightly deranged white-haired femme fatale who walks with a cane in orthopaedic shoes and likes to make her own steak and kidney pie.
Bisset is clearly having fun with the role, as is director Baptiste Drapeau, who tips his hat not exactly to Alfred Hitchcock or Claude Chabrol, but more precisely to Claude Chabrol paying tribute to Alfred Hitchcock (think Le Beau Serge...
- 10/12/2021
- by Leslie Felperin
- The Guardian - Film News
The two actresses lead the cast of Baptiste Drapeau first feature film, which is steered by Capricci in league with Mon Ballon Productions and will be sold by WTFilms. The first clapperboard slammed in Bordeaux yesterday for Messe basse, the first full-length work by Baptiste Drapeau, a young filmmaker known for the shorts he authored as a student at La Fémis. Starring in the cast are Alice Isaaz, America’s Jacqueline Bisset (who has just finished shooting Madeleine Collins – read our article), François Dominique Blin (a familiar face from French TV series, known on...
- 10/30/2019
- Cineuropa - The Best of European Cinema
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