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The Story Of Adele H [DVD] [1977]

DVD ~ Isabelle Adjani
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  • Actors: Isabelle Adjani, Bruce Robinson, Sylvia Marriott, Sylvia Blatchley
  • Directors: Francois Truffaut
  • Format: PAL
  • Language English, French
  • Region: Region 2 (This DVD may not be viewable outside Europe. Read more about DVD formats.)
  • Number of discs: 1
  • Classification: 12
  • Studio: MGM Entertainment
  • DVD Release Date: 4 Aug 2003
  • Run Time: 96 minutes
  • Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
  • ASIN: B00009XW8O
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 20,380 in DVD (See Bestsellers in DVD)

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The Story of Adele H is Francois Truffaut's dramatisation of the true story of Adele Hugo, the daughter of French author-in-exile Victor Hugo, and her romantic obsession with a young French officer. It's a cinematically beautiful and emotionally wrenching portrait of a headstrong but unstable young woman. Adele (Isabelle Adjani, whose pale face gives her the quality of a cameo portrait) travels under a false name and spins half-a-dozen false stories about herself and her relationship to Lieutenant Pinson (Bruce Robinson), the Hussar she follows to Halifax, Nova Scotia. Pinson no longer loves her, but she refuses to accept his rejection. Sinking further and further into her own internal world, she passes herself off as his wife and pours out her stormy emotions into a personal journal filled with delusional descriptions of her fantasy life.

Beautifully shot by Nestor Almendros in vivid colour, Truffaut's re-creation of the 1860s is accomplished not merely in impressive sets and locations but in the very style of the film: narration and voiceovers, written journal entries and letters, journeys and locations established with map reproductions, and a judicious use of stills mixing old-fashioned cinematic technique with poetic flourishes. The result is one of Truffaut's most haunting portraits, all the more powerful because it's true. --Sean Axmaker

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19 of 21 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars beautiful movie from one of the best european directors, 10 Nov 2003
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this movie was based on Adèle H (Hugo) diaries. she's madly (in true sense)with lt. Pinson who doesn't share her feelings. when she decides to join him in halifax and faces the fact that he won't ever correspond her love, her obsession will bring her to madness.
this, in a few words, is the story. what it's impossible to tell is the beauty of the film (cinematography by Nestor Almendros) and the power of the acting.
this film, and the fact that is bound to reality, doesn't allow the viewer to feel detached from what happens on screen. furthermore, the intelligence of the screenplay and the directing never allow the story to fall in cheap melodrama.
this is also an occasion to watch Adjani's first international role which brught her an Oscar nomination in 1976.

ABOUT THE DVD

picture and sound are ok but nothing more. no extras (at least an introduction by Serge Toubiana, as in others Truffaut's DVDs, would have been necessary.

Director: François Truffaut
Story: Frances Vernor Guille (from Adèle Hugo's diaries)
Screenplay: Jean Gruault, Suzanne Schiffman, François Truffaut
Music (non original): Maurice Jaubert
Cinematography: Nestor Almendros
Editing: Martine Barraqué, Yann Dedet Jean Gargonne Michèle Neny, Muriel Zeleny.
Actors: Isabelle Adjani, Bruce Robinson, Sylvia Marriott, Joseph Blatchley, Ivry Gitlis, Louise Bourdet e altri

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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars A REAL DELUSIONAL DEMONIC OBSESSIVE COMPULSION, 7 July 2009
Isabelle Adjani is the tortured younger daughter of FRENCH AUTHOR Victor Hugo who pursues her diffident lover Lt.pinson[Bruce Robinson ] from Guernsey to Nova Scotia,CANADA in an uncontrolled ,passionate affair after she is denied an alliance with a gambler,promiscuously narcissistic charmer by her disapproving father.

Adjani wants Pinson to accept her even as a lie that he is still desires her and presumably they had an affair in the past ,while he is cruelly indifferent to her obsession with him-her secret stalking and delightful voyeurism of his sexual adventures become spellbinding ,as she witnesses him making love from a spyhole,it is an observation of a lofty passion rather than a psychiatric madness that TRAFFAUT has designed with his humanist style ,the inner mind of this woman is as turbulent as atlantic ocean that she crosses .

Her monologues and self addressed confessions are hypnotic,her sadistic delight in sending a prostitute to pleasure her estranged lover is beyond comprehension .

She finally sinks into lunacy as she follows him to Barbados ,where she is rescued by a local benefactress who returns her to France,the part where she roams the streets in Bridgetown in the tropical colonial resort in a black hood muttering and chanting is a haunting revelation of the steadfast devotion of feminist determination yet it is singled by a delusional beauty that is heartbreakingly humane in itself .

The turmoil in the movie is juxtaposed on her personal plight with the political dissidence of Hugo ,struggling against Napoleon the third ,it also opens in 1863 with Civil war raging in U.S.A and Halifax and Canadians hunting yanks desperately ,the period compliments the character's insight perfectly and Hugo's younger daughter is exposed in her magnificent madness with the help of the secret diaries she maintained and were later deciphered by historians .

A triumph all around as this is an unforgettable masterpiece into the cerebral insight of an unusually unique woman and the daughter of a great thinker.

It is sublime in demonstrating how you can despise someone you love,yet be totally bewitched by them in an obsession and it demonstrates the malicious side of love, this is almost a euphemism for sado- masochism,it can be compared to LADY CAROLINE LAMB,but that does not come within leagues of this fascinating and accurately true chapter from the chronicles of history .
The character is a tribute to Adjani with both her angelic sizzling aura which fuses harmoniously with the immaculate talent of the maker,Francois Truffaut who humanely interprets a true story from history .

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8 of 19 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars love will tear us apart, 13 Jan 2005
Isabelle Adjani, aged 20... mmm... hold that thought. And if that makes you feel glad all over, then this film is for you. It's all about how she, well, Adele, falls madly in love with this stuck-up English dude. And, like, when I say 'madly', I mean madly. It's quite unnerving to see her gradually falling apart. And the English guy, Lieutenant Pinson (played by a 20-something Bruce Robinson) won't budge an inch, fobbing her off time and time again with the old 'not tonight, dear, I've got a headache' routine. At first you think he must be out of his mind - I mean, he's got this drop-dead gorgeous French girl declaring her undying love for him - and she's not short of a penny or two either. (You start to wonder, 'maybe this guy has has issues?') But when you see how completely out of her mind she is, it becomes only too apparent why Pinson is playing hard to get. In fact, you have to feel pretty sorry for him too as he gets hounded to the far ends of the earth by a deluded and obsessed maniac. Money and looks ain't everything, hey.
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2.0 out of 5 stars How true is true?
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