Editing Isabelle Huppert (section)

=== 1980–1999: Established actress ===
After a five-year absence from American films, Huppert starred in [[Michael Cimino]]'s ''[[Heaven's Gate (film)|Heaven's Gate]]'' (1980), which opened to poor reviews and was a box office failure; decades later, the film has been reassessed, with some critics considering it an overlooked masterpiece.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.bbc.com/culture/story/20151120-heavens-gate-from-hollywood-disaster-to-masterpiece|title=Heaven's Gate: From Hollywood disaster to masterpiece|last=Barber|first=Nicholas|date=4 December 2015 |access-date=2 December 2016}}</ref> Also that year she starred in [[Maurice Pialat]]'s ''[[Loulou (film)|Loulou]]'' (1980) where she reunited with Gérard Depardieu. [[Janet Maslin]] of ''[[The New York Times]]'' praised her performance writing, "Miss Huppert does a fine job of seeming exotic, vague, dazzling and also, somehow, unremarkable - all of this at the same time. The performances are much sharper than the film is as a whole."<ref>{{cite news|url= https://www.nytimes.com/1980/10/08/arts/isabelle-huppert-and-depardieu-in-loulou.html|title= Isabelle Huppert and Depardieu' in 'Loulou'|work= The New York Times|date= 8 October 1980|access-date= September 3, 2023|last1= Maslin|first1= Janet}}</ref> Also in 1980 she acted in [[Jean-Luc Godard]]'s ''[[Every Man for Himself (1980 film)|Sauve qui peut (la vie)]]'' (1980).

Throughout the 1980s, Huppert continued to explore enigmatic and emotionally distant characters, most notably in ''[[Coup de Torchon]]'' (1983) directed by [[Bertrand Tavernier]], adapted from [[Jim Thompson (writer)|Jim Thompson]]'s [[pulp novel]] ''[[Pop. 1280]]''. Huppert earned a [[César Award for Best Actress]] nomination for her performance. She acted in [[Curtis Hanson]]'s [[neo-noir]] thriller ''[[The Bedroom Window (1987 film)|The Bedroom Window]]'' (1987) acting opposite [[Steve Guttenberg]] and [[Elizabeth McGovern]].<ref>{{cite web|url= https://www.tcm.com/tcmdb/title/68333/the-bedroom-window/#overview|title= The Bedroom Window (1987)|website= [[Turner Classic Movies]]|access-date= September 3, 2023}}</ref> She won acclaim for her role in [[Claude Chabrol]]'s ''[[Story of Women|Une Affaire de Femmes]]'' (1988).

[[File:Isabelle Huppert CINEMANIA 1998.jpg|right|upright|thumb|At the 1998 [[Cinemania (film festival)|Cinemania Film Festival]]]]
In 1994, Huppert collaborated with American director [[Hal Hartley]] on ''[[Amateur (1994 film)|Amateur]]'', one of her few English-language performances since ''Heaven's Gate''. She won acclaim for her role in ''[[La Séparation]]'' (1994) with David Parkinson of ''[[British Film Institute]]'' writing, "Her distinctive talent for suppressing suffering is readily evident in Christian Vincent’s excruciating study of her slowly disintegrating relationship with Daniel Auteuil, as Huppert imparts chilling intimacy to a withdrawn hand, an unanswering gaze, a treacherous silence and a careless word in conveying the pain of falling out of love."<ref>{{cite web|url= https://www.bfi.org.uk/lists/isabelle-huppert-10-essential-films|title= Isabelle Huppert's 10 Essential Films|website= BFI|date= 16 March 2017|access-date= September 3, 2023}}</ref> She portrayed a manic and homicidal post-office worker in [[Claude Chabrol]]'s ''[[La Cérémonie]]'' (1995) for which she won the [[César Award for Best Actress]] and the [[Volpi Cup for Best Actress]]. Huppert continued her cinematic relationship with Chabrol in ''[[The Swindle (1997 film)|Rien ne va plus]]'' (1997) and ''[[Merci pour le Chocolat]]'' (2000).