Huppert Stars as Invisible Extra in Fitoussi's French Satire — SkimNews
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- Marc Fitoussi directed "All About Corinne," a French film-industry satire starring Isabelle Huppert as Corinne Maclou, an aging extra and bit player in her sixties still chasing stardom.
- Sandrine Kiberlain plays herself as a leading lady opposite Huppert, with their meta-casting forming the film's central joke — Huppert, one of France's most decorated actresses, cast as an industry nobody whose name nobody recalls.
- The film's plot hinges on Kiberlain's character accepting Corinne's recorded Chilean play, then months later announcing a Paris stage production of that same work — sparking a "highly conditional" alliance in which each actress uses the other for different ends.
- Emmanuelle Bercot and Diane Kruger also cameo as themselves, the review singling out Kruger as "hilariously glamazonian" competing with her co-star for "maximum miscasting" in a fictional Dardenne Brothers film about a Liège tiler.
- The film launched its festival run as Locarno's closing-night selection and continued through a Toronto gala slot, positioning it for global arthouse distribution per Variety.
- Fitoussi's prior credits include female-driven French comedies such as the uncharacteristically chipper Huppert vehicle "Copacabana" and the recent Laure Calamy hit "Two Tickets to Greece"; the reviewer places the new film in the lineage of "Call My Agent!"-style industry satire.
Why it matters: The Locarno closing-night and Toronto gala berthouses give "All About Corinne" a clear path to global arthouse distribution, and Huppert plus Kiberlain's willingness to send up their own screen personae supplies a commercial hook for audiences already drawn to accessible French industry satire in the vein of "Call My Agent!"
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