特写 Close-Up

The French-language film will be shot with close-up camera angles and follow Huppert’s character as she takes on the role of successive female characters through several eras from the 17th century to the modern day. They will include a peasant in 1948, an early 20th-century emigrant, a witch consumed by flames in the late 17th century, a mystic and a woman navigating the challenges of war.

Huppert told Screen the origins of the project lie with Medea Miracle, after which Bernardi “wanted to make another film that was just a close up of my face, using the face as a landscape, the face as a mechanism through which to tell a wider story about feminism through the centuries.”