Get the latest gossip
‘The Richest Woman in the World’ Review: Isabelle Huppert Stars in a Billionaire-Dynasty Drama That Fails to Scratch the ‘Succession’ Itch
Despite Isabelle Huppert's magnetism, Thierry Klifa's "The Richest Woman in the World," is a satire based on a real-life scandal that lacks bite.
What pleasures it yields stem exclusively from watching the actress swan around without breaking a sweat in a role tailored to her specifications as precisely as costume designers Jürgen Doering and Laure Villemer’s expensively chic outfits. Prologue over, we spool back in time to explore how this bastion of high society could suddenly have been brought so low, to a public-image-enhacing interview set up by Marianne’s glum daughter Frédérique (Marina Foïs, under an oddly styled helmet of heavy hair). Its fictionalization shifts the time period to the late-80s and reweights the two strands, prioritizing its (anti)heroine’s bizarre personal and familial relationships over a few stray mentions of Mitterand and the embarrassing emergence of her deceased father’s Nazi tendencies.
Or read this on Variety
