Name: Mrs. Hyde
Director: Serge Bozon

One stormy night, an unpopular physics teacher (Isabelle Huppert) is struck by lightning and faints. When she wakes up, she begins to feel new powers within her... Mrs. Géquil (Isabelle Huppert) is an eccentric teacher who is despised by her colleagues and students. Submissively, she lives her life until the moment of transformation. The reference in the title to Robert Louis Stevenson's classic hints at the direction this story will take. As always, Isabelle Huppert plays both parts of her character wonderfully and with visible enjoyment: the bullied teacher Géquil (pronounced Jekyll) as well as her overconfident Hyde version. The film, which won an award in Locarno, moves effortlessly between French social drama, upbeat comedy and fantasy in the course of its story.

Keywords

Berlinale
International Film Festival Rotterdam
Isabelle Huppert
Locarno Film Festival!
LuxFilmFest
Romain Duris
quirky
women

Actors

Isabelle Huppert
Romain Duris
José Garcia
Pierre Léon

Director

Serge Bozon

Drama, Comedy

1h 35min

tous publics

FRENCH

France

2017

Trailer

In this blend of French social drama, light-hearted comedy and fantasy, an unpopular physics teacher acquires supernatural powers.

One stormy night, an unpopular physics teacher (Isabelle Huppert) is struck by lightning and faints. When she wakes up, she begins to feel new powers within her...

Mrs. Géquil (Isabelle Huppert) is an eccentric teacher who is despised by her colleagues and students. Submissively, she lives her life until the moment of transformation. The reference in the title to Robert Louis Stevenson's classic hints at the direction this story will take.

As always, Isabelle Huppert plays both parts of her character wonderfully and with visible enjoyment: the bullied teacher Géquil (pronounced Jekyll) as well as her overconfident Hyde version.

The film, which won an award in Locarno, moves effortlessly between French social drama, upbeat comedy and fantasy in the course of its story.