Villa Amalia

Isabelle Huppert comes very close to offering us a decaffeinated self-parody in this odd French movie by Benoît Jacquot. She plays a professional concert pianist who witnesses her live-in partner kissing someone else and the discovery opens her eyes to how empty the relationship has been. She takes off to Italy, where she buys a clifftop cabin – the Villa Amalia – and makes this the location for a sensual affair with a woman. The movie is sometimes diverting in an eccentric and disengaged way.