Coming up as a cinema snob in adolescence, your average hetero boy's sexual desire-the hyper-wattage of which tends to outstrip FCC broadcast regulations, thereby causing a lot of, um, fritz on the signal-is thankfully managed by a chronological succession of fantastic Parisian lips. Anna Karina (in early Godard), Deneuve (in everything), and then: bam. The modern era. It belongs to Isabelle Huppert. Forget Courtney Cox's insulting Cougartown weaksauce. It's enough to make you believe in a God, the way Huppert gets more dangerous-and more unbearably desirable-with every passing year. You thought she was peaking as a labial cutter in Michel Haneke's film adaptation of Jelenik's The Piano Teacher back in 2001? That was dumb of you. Naturally, Huppert upped the erotic ante by signing on for a film adaptation of a Georges Bataille incest tale, Ma Mere. READ MORE