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The Story of Adele H.

starring: Isabelle Adjani, Bruce Robinson, Joseph Blatchley, Ivry Gitlis, Sylvia Marriott
directed by: Francois Truffaut

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Aspect Ratio: 1.66:1
Audience Rating: PG (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Binding: DVD
Brand: TWENTIETH CENTURY FOX HOME ENT
EAN: 9780792848479
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, DVD-Video, Letterboxed, Subtitled, Widescreen, NTSC
ISBN: 0792848470
Label: MGM (Video & DVD)
Manufacturer: MGM (Video & DVD)
Number Of Items: 1
Picture Format: Letterbox
Publisher: MGM (Video & DVD)
Region Code: 1
Release Date: January 23, 2001
Running Time: 96 minutes
Sales Rank: 30603
Studio: MGM (Video & DVD)
Theatrical Release Date: 1975



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A profoundly beautiful movie (The New York Times), The Story of Adele H. is a haunting film based on a true story about desire, devotion...and madness. OscarÂ(r)-nominated* Isabelle Adjani stars in this lush portrait of a woman whose obsessive passion sets the stage for oneof the most romantic films of recent years (Saturday Review). Adele, daughter of French author and patriot Victor Hugo, is beautiful, composed and filled with the same brilliant writing talent as her famous father. However, Adele is driven not by literary aspirations but by love. Impelled by a need that will not be denied, she has run away from home to follow her handsome, womanizing lover (Bruce Robinson) across an ocean to wintry Halifax, Nova Scotia. Wild with desire, she'llrisk everything to renew their brief affair. And if she can't win him back, there'll be a terrible price to pay. *1975: Actress, The Story of Adele H.; 1989: Actress, Camille Claudel

Amazon.com:
François Truffaut's dramatization 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 is 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 a half-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 farther and farther 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 color, 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 mix 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



Customer Reviews
Average Rating: out of 5 stars

Rating: 5 out of 5 stars - Drowning in an ocean of unrequited love.
Adèle H, the daughter of French writer Victor Hugo, wrote in her journals that she would walk across ... Read More


Rating: 4 out of 5 stars - Smokin' hot!
Isabel Adjani may be playing a character with a loose screw. But I am telling you, the babe is smokin' ... Read More


Rating: 3 out of 5 stars - Tragic, True Story Bogged Down by Repetitiveness
This film tells the true tale of one of Victor Hugo's daughters who, obsessed in her love for a man who ... Read More


Rating: 1 out of 5 stars - Truffaut is BORING!
I love "arsty" movies. I love Kurosawa. I like Eric Rohmer. My Dinner with Andre is one of my favorite movies. ... Read More


Rating: 5 out of 5 stars - Adelle
She chases after a man who doesn't want her. Very French. She finally looses her mind at the end. Much angst. HARD ... Read More

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