Cannes 2025: Isabelle Huppert and Laurent Lafitte will surprise you in the richest woman in the world – Actus Ciné – Allociné

Isabelle Huppert is back in Cannes with The richest woman in the worldnew film by Thierry Klifa, very freely inspired by the Bettencourt affair. The actress, Royale, will surprise you in a role in line with a performance of 8 women by François Ozon. With Laurent Lafitte, she creates an already iconic duo, with replicas and scenes that will inevitably make react. She finds the actor almost 10 years after her by Paul Verhoeven.

To our microphone, Isabelle Huppert indicates about her role: “I let myself be embarked by the tone that I expected, that was going to be the film and which was given to me by the flavor of the dialogues, the sequence of the scenes. I planned that we could take a tone, sometimes a little the tone of the stuffing, a little a theatrical tone, a little the tone of the operetta. There is all that that is at work in the film and which especially gave me a lot of freedom and which allowed me to do exactly what I wanted to do with this character. “

About the rapprochement between this film and 8 womenIsabelle Huppert answers us: “Frankly, I would never have thought about it. And at the same time, I also like to say that there is a form of theatricality in the tone of the film. I was saying the tone of the farce. There is an exaggeration which is a lot brought by the character of Fantine, played wonderfully by Laurent Laffitte, and who perhaps participates in these reminiscences, in these links that we tend with other films, because as if almost she would also caricat herself in this character, or as if, all of a sudden, the meeting with Fantin allowed him to access this slight exaggeration of herself. The way she has to get out is to do a little too much, as was the case in François Ozon’s film.”

“A host of demented actors “

The richest woman in the world received a very nice welcome during her presentation last night, preceded by a prestigious climb of the steps with the whole film of the film. What are the first opinions on the film, overall positive. Here are some reviews and extracts from criticism.

Screen Daily : “The performance of Isabelle Huppert is of a masterful coldness: her interpretation of Marianne depicts a woman so accustomed to luxury that her external signs no longer inspire her. The actress, internationally acclaimed, camps with a bewitching detachment this character who redecorates her home as we would change outfits.”

“#LafemmelaplusRiCHEDUMONDONDUMONDE, Funny and nasty like a MANKIEWICZ film. A host of demented actors and a Thierry Klifa in solid gold behind the camera.“

Le Parisien: “Inspired freely and fiercely by billionaire Liliane Bettencourt, Thierry Klifa’s film with Isabelle Huppert, presented out of competition on Sunday evening in the official selection, makes you laugh badly.“

“Freely inspired by the Bettencourt affair, #LafemmelaplusRiChedumonde, draws its strength from its casting (superb Huppert and delicious lafitte in insatiable but touching crooks) failing to have a staging/scenario sufficiently inspired to take it further. #Cannes2025 “

Huffington Post : “During the first half of the film, at each of the masterful appearances’ of Laurent Lafitte), we laugh with throat deployed with her filterless remarks, his unlimited vulgarity, and his way of taking up all the place in a room or a conversation. And it must be said that Laurent Lafitte plays impertinence to excellence. The one who spent twelve years at the Comédie française has forgotten nothing about the theater and proves it in this exuberant, handled role, beyond Too Much.”