How One Director’s Dream of an Isabelle Huppert Solo Act Became a Nightmare

How One Director’s Dream of an Isabelle Huppert Solo Act Became a Nightmare

Michael Rozek was at his home in rural Nebraska on a Zoom call with Isabelle Huppert and members of a production crew in Normandy, back in November 2022. The first-time director was in the beginning stages of a film shoot for “Marianne,” a movie he spent the past decade trying to make with Huppert and an Oscar-nominated producer. Rozek, now 70, had no filmmaking background, only a passion for the arts and to find people willing to help him make …