A sweet, naïve young woman trying to make it on her own in New York City, Frances (Chloë Grace Moretz) doesn’t think twice about returning the handbag she finds on the subway to its rightful owner. That owner is Greta (Isabelle Huppert), an eccentric French piano teacher with a love for classical music and an aching loneliness.  Having recently lost her mother, Frances quickly grows closer to widowed Greta. The two become fast friends — but Greta’s maternal charms begin to dissolve and grow increasingly disturbing as Frances discovers that nothing in Greta’s life is what it seems in this suspense thriller from Academy Award®-winning director Neil Jordan.

Some of Jordan’s best work has come in the thriller genre, so it’ll be interesting to see how he updates his approach to it. Co-starring along with Huppert and Moretz is Maika Monroe, Colm Feore, and Jordan’s longtime collaborator Stephen Rea.

Directed by the underrated Neil Jordan (“Michael Collins,” “The Crying Game”) and written by Jordan and Ray Wright, “Greta” is a thriller much in the same vein as “Elle,” and could prove to be as successful for Huppert as the latter film. Either way, the film should prove to further raise Huppert’s profile stateside, and should (hopefully) lead to more English-language roles for her in the future.

Focus Features opens “Greta” on March 1, 2019.