BIOGRAPHY
Director’s Biography
After studying English and Art History, Marc Fitoussi entered the   Conservatoire européen d'écriture audiovisuelle (CEEA) where he pursued his formal training as a screenwriter. He began to direct as well, by shooting several short festures, namely Illustre Inconnue and Bonbon au poivre   which won the Cesar for best short feature in 2007. That same year he directed his first long feature entitled La Vie d'artiste , starring Sandrine Kiberlain, Denis Podalydès and Émilie Dequenne which won the prix Michel-d'Ornano, a prize meant to reward the best first work of French fiction. In 2010, his second film Copacabana was released and features the real-life mother and daughter Isabelle Huppert and Lolita Chammah.

Isabelle Huppert 's Biography
Born in 1953, in Paris, France, Isabelle Huppert grew up in Ville d'Avray and was first encouraged by her mother (an English teacher) to attend the Conservatory of Versailles where she won an acting prize for her work in Alfred de Musset 's "Un caprice". After obtaining a bachelor’s degree in Russian language and literature, she went on to study at the Conservatoire d'Art Dramatique which led her to an illustrious theatrical career, which includes Ivan Turgenev 's "A Month in the Country", Euripides ' "Medea" (playing the title role) among others. She first appeared on screen in 1971, landing secondary roles in a number of remarkable films (César et Rosalie , Les Valseuses , Le Juge et l'Assassin). Claude Goretta revealed her finally as the heartbreaking “Pomme” in his tender film La dentellière (1976). At the age of 25, she received the Prix d’Interprétation at Cannes for her role in Claude Chabrol’s Violette Noziere (1987) with whom she maintained throughout her career an extremely productive collaboration, and under whose direction she not only famously embodied the infamous Madame Bovary , but also starred in Une affaire de femmes , La Cérémonie , Merci pour le chocolat , L'Ivresse du pouvoir . More recently, while continuing to explore psychologically complex characters, notably in Patricia Mazuy 's Saint-Cyr (2000) and Michael Haneke 's controversial La pianiste (2001) (for which she won her second prix d’interprétation in Cannes for her role as a sexually repressed piano teacher), and of course working under the French directorial aristocracy (Ozon, Doillon, Assayas, Chereau, Denis), she also collaborated with exciting independent talents abroad : Hal Hartley , David O. Russell , Joachim Lafosse , Ursula Meier ). In Marc Fitoussi’s Copacabana, she shares the screen for the first time with her daughter in real life, Lolita Chammah , in a bittersweet comedy where mother daughter roles are reversed.

Lolita Chammah 's Biography
Daughter of actress Isabelle Huppert and director and distributor Ronald Chammah, Lolita was born well placed for a career in film. She began her path in acting at the Conservatoire du 5e Arrondissement de Paris, and continued at the well-known Ecole Supérieure du Théâtre National de Strasbourg. Lolita was first seen on the big screen in brief appearances by her mother’s side in Chabrol’s Une Affaire de Femmes in 1988, but it wouldn’t be before 2000 that we would see her real talent, in La Vie Moderne by Laurence Ferreira Barbosa – with her mother in the lead role. She then took her career by the horns and flew solo in Claire Denis’s l’Intrus (2004) and Marc Fitoussi’s La Vie d’Artiste (2007), appearing in a variety of short, mid, and full-length features alongside big names such as Julie Depardieu and Charlotte Rampling. On stage she played the role of Agnès  in Coline Serreau’s production of « L'Ecole des femmes ». However, Lolita makes her first true mark with the public, acting alongside her mother in this year’s festival’s Copacabana.

FILMOGRAPHY
Director's Filmography
2010 COPACABANA Official Selection, Critic’s Week, Cannes Festival 2010
2009 DES FIGURANTS (documentary)
2007 LA VIE D’ARTISTE Prix Michel d’Ornano of the Best First French Feature Film
2006 L’ÉDUCATION ANGLAISE (documentary)
2005 BONBON AU POIVRE (medium-length film) Nomination au César du Meilleur (short film)
2001 SACHEZ CHASSER (medium-length film)
1999 MA VIE ACTIVE (short film)

Isabelle Huppert’s Selective filmography
Sans queue ni tête - Jeanne Labrune (2010) Copacabana - Marc Fitoussi (2010)
Villa Amalia - Benoît Jacquot (2009)
Un barrage contre le Pacifique - Rithy Panh (2009)
Home - Ursula Meier (2008)
Nue Propriété - Joachim Lafosse (2007)
L'Ivresse du pouvoir - Claude Chabrol (2006)
Gabrielle - Patrice Chéreau (2005)
La Porte du Paradis - Michael Cimino (2005)
I heart Huckabees - David O. Russell (2005)
8 femmes - François Ozon (2002)
La Pianiste - Michael Haneke (2001)
Comédie de l'innocence - Raoul Ruiz (2001)
Les Destinées sentimentales - Olivier Assayas (2000)
La Fausse suivante - Benoît Jacquot (2000)
Merci pour le chocolat - Claude Chabrol (2000)
Saint Cyr - Patricia Mazuy (1999)
L'Ecole de la chair - Benoît Jacquot (1998)
Rien ne va plus - Claude Chabrol (1997)
Le Juge et l'Assassin - Bertrand Tavernier (1996)
La Cérémonie - Claude Chabrol (1995)
Amateur - Hal Hartley (1994)
Après l'amour - Diane Kurys (1991)
Malina - Werner Schroeter (1991)
Madame Bovary - Claude Chabrol (1991)
La Vengeance d'une femme - Jacques Doillon (1990)
Les Possédés - Andrzej Wajda (1988)
The Bedroom Window - Curtis Hanson (1987)
Sac de nœuds - Josiane Balasko (1985)
La Femme de mon pote - Bertrand Blier (1983)
Passion - Jean-Luc Godard (1982)
Les Soeurs Brontë - André Téchiné (1979)
La Dentellière - Claude Goretta (1977)
Les Valseuses - Bertrand Blier (1974)