EMMANUELLE CHAULET Directing Reviews The Maids The play is great, brilliantly written, superbly staged and acted, the thrill surpasses almost everything. Community Pride Reporter There is one truth that emerges from this production: The acting, directed by guest artist Emmanuelle Chaulet, is superb.... Vintage Repertory’s rendition captures the essence (of the play),engaging a sometimes bewildered but clearly bewitched audience with meticulously sustained characterizations, skilled direction and dramatic lighting. Portland Press Herald Vintage Repertory Company’s presentation of The Maids yields performances thatring true to all aspects of this disturbing convoluted work. Don’t miss this audacious production. Maine Times Music Hall This is an acting tour de force for Bergeron, who is in total command of this role both physically and emotionally.... she is funny and sad and filled with desperation. Portland Press Herald A passionate, moving and finely crafted performance. Jane Bergeron delivers a bravado performance as "The Girl".Face Magazine A Taste Of Killing On the Tip Of The Tongue "Every single rehearsal is like a workshop, she is the best director I’ve ever worked with." says Guerin, actress. Free Press USM Actors impressive in Taste. The acting is most impressive. With their open expressive faces, college-age actors elicit the audience sympathy and hope that it is not too late for them to find their way. Portland Press Herald Chaulet’s style is cinematic even on the stage, with the use of close ups by lighting and blocking. The Journal Tribune Rest Stop Emmanuelle Chaulet’s direction is tight and sensitive. She packs a wallop in the short hard-edged fight scene. Portland Press Herald The plot (...) is enthralling and touching at the same time, showing the actor’s mastering of the characters and of the dialogue. They are well directed under veteran Emmanuelle Chaulet. Free Press Phaedra Directed by Emmanuelle Chaulet, this play contains many intriguing innovations, such as the use of slides projected on the back wall of the stage, modern music and creative movement. The Creative Movement Chorus functions much as the traditional Greek Chorus, bringing a nice, dreamlike, deeply symbolic and visually striking atmosphere to the play, (...) Chaulet is willing to take risks with this production, and she does an admirable job blending them into a cohesive statement. The Journal Tribune El Cid au Flamenco To love and honor Two Lights puts an ambitious Latin spin on Le Cid It [Love and honor] can be a seductive, willful dance, and in the Two Lights Theatre Ensemble's brave production of El Cid, based on Corneille's French classic, it is as intoxicating as flamenco. To Rodrigue and Chimène's story, director Emmanuelle Chaulet has had the imagination and audacity to add the stomps, claps, writhing arms, and steamy posturing of flamenco. Rodrigue and Chimène appear in double throughout the play, with dancers Benjamin Singer and Emily Zack providing a silent interpretation of the speaking actors' lines. Chaulet's innovation of flamenco is exceptionally well conceived for this play. Its heat and arrogance heighten both the flavor of the Spanish setting and the inner, animal passions which underlie Rodrigue and Chimène's more rational, verbal constructions of honor and outrage.The Portland Phoenix Acting Reviews Boyfriends And Girlfriends In her movie debut, Chaulet brings a rich emotionalism to the part, upholding the Rohmer tradition of exquisitely vulnerable heroines.(...) She is one of the new breed of bright and articulate European actors who take their craft seriously. She has chosen to build a strong technical foundation to support a lengthy career. To augment her training in France, she has been studying method acting on a (Fulbright) scholarship at the Lee Strasberg Theater Institute in New York. Premiere Magazine Emmanuelle Chaulet, the muse behind Eric Rohmer’s Boyfriends and Girlfriends. What makes this film so moving is the gradual unfurling of Emmanuelle Chaulet within her character. Chaulet is a small slight woman with dark red hair and dark eyebrows. She speaks precisely and moves with a grace(...) like a belle of the last century. She is intelligent, reserved, orderly, almost excessively sensitive and surprisingly robust. She is not a naturally magnetic screen presence, but she grows increasingly beautiful through the course of the film as she drops her guard bit by bit. Interview Magazine Boyfriends and Girlfriends is full of unexpected delights. As usual every member of the cast is very good, but Miss Chaulet may very well be a brand new star. (...) 102 mn all wonderful. Vincent Canby, The New York Times Emmanuelle Chaulet is one of the prettiest and best actress that have been seen in Eric Rohmer movies, and then, there is her character, shy and complex. Emmanuelle Chaulet accomplishes Blanche’s metamorphosis in a walkthrough the woods (....) that has the beauty of Jean Renoir’s Partie de Campagne. Le Monde All The Vermeers In New York The real star of the whole show, it’s Anna, the Emmanuelle Chaulet who made such an exquisite debut in Eric Rohmer’s Boyfriends and Girlfriends.(...)Only trouble is: she doesn’t in the least look like the woman in that Vermeer; she is much prettier. New York Post Boasting, invigorating performance from Emmanuelle Chaulet as a French actress in New York. The film is an elegantly incisive and gorgeously romantic comedy of manners. Rolling Stone Anna, (Emmanuelle Chaulet) is Jost’s cinema borrowing from his favorite film director, Jean-Luc Godard, the kind of cool, enigmatic, beautiful but morally vacuous character whom Jean Seberg immortalized in Breathless. 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