'Mrs. Hyde' Seeks, But Does Not Find, Coherence
In this disjointed and bewildering French film, Isabelle Huppert plays a mousy schoolteacher who gains a more assertive — and occasionally lethal — persona after being struck by lighting.
Among Isabelle Huppert's many impressively vehement roles are several murderers, a mother who seduces her son, and the abortionist who was the last woman France ever sent to the guillotine. So the first joke of the intriguing but bewilderingly scattered Mrs. Hyde is director Serge Bozon's casting of the anything-goes actress as a shy, awkward schoolteacher.
