“The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde” by Robert Louis Stevenson has inspired countless adaptations on the big and small screen. However, it’s likely none fall on quite the same wavelength as the sci-fi comedy (you read that right) “Madame Hyde” starring Isabelle Huppert.

Directed by Serge Bozon, the film follows an otherwise unremarkable and unnoticed high school teacher, who gets a huge burst of personality after she’s zapped by electricity.

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The classic Robert Louis Stevenson story of split identities is given another cinematic treatment in Serge Bozon‘s “Mrs. Hyde,” which stars Isabelle Huppert as the titular character, although she is at first just Madame Gequil — a dissatisfied physics teacher at a blue-collar high-school mostly filled with kids from an immigrant background. At first, playing like a parody of “Dangerous Minds,” the structural and ruling management of Madame Gequil’s classes is all over the place, and whenever she appears for her afternoon tech class, chaos ensues among the students.

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