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The Story of Adele H

The Story of Adele H

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Rating: 5 stars
Summary: One of the major achievements of Truffaut!
Review: This is a must in your collection. The charismatic and sideral beauty of Isabelle Adjani enriches itself for her gifted talent as actress .
I don't think in any other actress in that age (with the exception of Shygulla or Jill Claybourgh ) who were capable to win the this defiant performance . This role is hyper difficult and Adjani carries to cosmical levels.
The story turns around the hopeless relation between Adele and a french officer. She leaves everything in France for join him : but the result is useless.
The slow of the progressive madness of Adele is told with such richeness of creative talent , that you wonder why Adjani didn't win the Academy Award with this one.
The picture is perfect in every little detail. A winner and one of the most perfect french films in the seventies.

Rating: 4 stars
Summary: Sad, facinating tale of a young woman's madness
Review: This is done in a semi-documentary style in that it switches back and forth between a narrative format and dramatic scenes. It deals with the life of the daughter of Victor Hugo and her obsession with a young British officer who lacks even the slightest interest in her. It was quite well done and visually beautiful, but a bit hard to take as she deteriorates from a beautiful, well-off young girl into a street crazy. Don't watch this if you are looking for a happy ending, feel-good sort of film or have a lot of scars from an unrequited love (a friend of mine couldn't finish watching it), but if you have an interest in 19th century culture and society it is worth your time.

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: Beautiful Haunted Girl
Review: This is the most amazing story of obsessive love I have ever seen. Isabel Adjani is so attractive it takes my breath away. I could watch this movie over and over, and have. The cinematography is very good, and the acting is also exceptional.

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: Wow
Review: This movie is a life story of Adele Hugo, the daughter of the famous Victor Hugo.
You must watch this movie and learn what True Love really is!

I'd give my both arms for a wife like Adele yet the man she was obsessed with didn't care at all about her!

A must see movie!


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