Embracing anonymity | Bangkok Post: lifestyle

Over the years it's become something of a cliche: Isabelle Huppert is a small woman who's built up an illustrious career by playing emotionally powerful roles _ roles so big in attitude that we tend to forget the size of the actress playing them. She's played Madame Bovary; she's played the amoral mother in a film based on a George Bataille novel; and she's probably best known to Thai audiences as the intensely masochistic Erika Kohut in The Piano Teacher.

Isabelle Huppert in a scene from Captive .

And in this pre-Oscar season, it is healthy to remind ourselves that one of the world's most adventurous actresses is not necessarily tied to Hollywood and can do equally good work an ocean's width away.