Casting La Huppert as an extra — albeit a very extra extra — in thrall to Sandrine Kiberlain is the first good joke of many in Marc Fitoussi's inside-baseball lark.
\n\nAs one of the select few French actresses who has earned definite-article status in her homeland — referred to routinely as La Huppert, alongside the likes of La Binoche and La Deneuve — it’s immediately, amusingly jarring to see Isabelle Huppert cast as a thoroughly indefinite article: a jobbing movie extra whose name nobody recalls, no matter how many headshots and résumés she desperately forces into the hands of higher-ups on set. Casting Huppert as an industry nobody is the chief gag of “All About Corinne,” Marc Fitoussi‘s winningly droll film-biz comedy, but there turns out to be a lot of mileage in it, particularly with co-star Sandrine Kiberlain — cast not just as an industry somebody, but as Sandrine Kiberlain herself — as her imperious foil.
\n\nBoth sending themselves up in contrasting ways, the stars’ perceptive, vanity-free performances lend some weight and feeling to what is otherwise a frothy exercise — as is to be expected from Fitoussi, a specialist in female-driven French divertissements, including the uncharacteristically chipper Huppert…
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