Introduction Chapter 1 Modernist Performance: Une modernité de jeu Chapter 2 Huppert and Godard: Acting Degree Zero Chapter 3 A Woman's Film Chapter 4 Huppert and Bovarysme: 'Archetypes of Dissatisfaction' Chapter 5 LaPianiste and the Modernist Melodrama Chapter 6 Reading Elle Chapter 7 Celebrating the Outlier: Villa Amalia, L'avenir, In Another Country Bibliography