Isabelle Huppert, one of the world's great actors of stage and screen, has briefly come to the Brooklyn Academy of Music in director Robert Wilson's production of Heiner Müller's Quartett, a deconstruction of the great 18th-century French novel, Les Liaisons Dangereuses.

Those who are familiar with Wilson know that star turns are not a regular feature of his work; actors more or less do what they're told. But Huppert manages to work within Wilson's strong ensemble of five actors, and, simultaneously, to deliver one of the great bravura performances currently on the New York stage -- even if Wilson's staging of the play ultimately feels predictable and even boring.

We first see Huppert[...]