Keyword One Character

Isabelle Huppert's first one-character project — out of the blue, an electrifying, form-smashing tour de force, capturing (for those with ears to hear) our current moment.

Unfairly dismissed from his duties for trying to catch a white-collar bandit, Jean-Guy Simard leaves the tax office with one fixed idea: to get revenge by making a video on the rules of tax avoidance. From Geneva to Bermuda, his strange investigation takes the form of a Dadaist and irreverent comedy, in which he plays all the roles at once, throughout an exposé where the power of money gradually confronts him with his own demons.

Dorian's Contemplation on the Crisis of Existence follows a boy trapped in a room that never changes. As time collapses around him, he drifts into fleeting dreams of a place less dark, where skies are softer and walls do not press. Yet, no matter how far his mind wanders, the room waits, silent and endless, swallowing all but the faintest echoes of somewhere else.