THE STORY OF ADELE H - KINOMANIA 2024
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Year: 1975
Production: European
KINOMANIA 2024
THE STORY OF ADELE H - France, 1975, 96‘
Director: François Truffaut
Cast: Isabelle Adjani (Adèle Hugo), Bruce Robinson (Lt Albert Pinson), Sylvia Marriott (Mrs.
Saunders), Joseph Blatchley (Mr. Whistler)
David di Donatello – Best Actress Award (Isabelle Adjani), French Syndicate of Cinema Critics – Best Film; New York Film Critics Circle Awards - Best Actress Award (Isabelle Adjani), Best Script (François Truffaut, Jean Gruault, Suzanne Schiffman); Oscar –Nomination for Best Actress (Isabelle Adjani)
Halifax, 1863. A young woman, Miss Lewly, comes to Halifax to search for Lt Pinson, with
whom she is madly in love. Actually, she is Adèle Hugo, the second daughter of the great
French literary figure and statesman. The Lt Pinson does not answer to her love and makes
her understand it is hopeless. But as her obsession grows she keeps chasing and harassing
him. This film about passionate yet obsessive love and self-destruction is based upon the
real diary of Adèle Hugo.
19 year old Adjani's turn as Victor Hugo’s love-crazed daughter nabbed her the Best Actress
prizes from all the major critics’ groups, and she likely didn’t win the Oscar because One
Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest steamrolled the competition. Truffaut’s study of Adèle is
ofttimes almost clinical in nature, but Adjani brings more than enough volcanic passion to the
project.
