Film The Story of Adele Hugo/ The Love Flower L'histoire d'Adèle H. (1975) American Blu-ray Edition Cover
In 1975, François Truffaut (1932-1984) directed the film The Story of Adele Hugo/ The Flower of Tears L'histoire d'Adèle H. (1975). Starring isabel Adjani, a newcomer to the film industry at the time, and the film shows the story of Adele Hugo, the daughter of the French writer Victor Hugo, who had a paranoid wrong love and eventually destroyed it.
François Truffaut succeeded in shaping the heroine's obsessive and unrepentant personality when directing this love tragedy based on the diary of Adele Hugo, and Isabelle Adjani also vividly expressed the neuroticism of the protagonist.
On the set of the film The Story of Adele Hugo/ The Tears of Love L'histoire d'Adèle H. (1975), François Truffaut and Isabelle Adjani are Isabelle Adjani
This film is arguably one of Isabelle Adjani's finest masterpieces. The exterior shots in Britain and France set off the atmosphere of the times quite realistically.
The film has a pivotal position in the world film industry and has won many awards: nominated for Best Director, Best Producer, and Best Actress at the French César Awards that year, nominated for Best Actress at the Academy Awards of the United States, and finally won the Best Actress Award of the American Film Critics Association, the Best Screenplay and Best Actress Award of the New York Film Critics Association, and the Best Foreign Language Film and Best Actress awards of the National Critics Association of the United States.
Reviews of the film have focused on two main areas. One is that Adele ran away from home for love, more to get rid of the shackles brought to her by the door and the blood, and her emotional independence surpassed any woman at that time.
Isabelle Adjani's image in the film The Story of Adele Hugo/ The Love Flower L'histoire d'Adèle H. (1975).
Adele did not consciously assume the responsibility of feminism, but was born a practitioner of feminism, her behavior was the pursuit of nature, the response to the inner demands of the self, with a posture of self-realization, surprisingly becoming an aurropriator of the patriarchal society.
Second, some film critics have pointed out that Adele is an Antigone-style character, and her story is a love story, but not a "normal" love, but a frenzied subversion of love discourse. Rather than being madly desperately in love with British officer Captain Albert Binson (Played by Bruce Robinson), she is madly desperate to fall in love with her own.
Stills from the film Adele Hugo's Story/Tears of Love L'histoire d'Adèle H. (1975), Bruce Robinson
Rather than bravely transcending the rules of class, etiquette, and gender, and loving beyond her time, it is her own transcendent feat that she loves.
Captain Albert Bison, who had always been distraught with her, provided only the right object, or even an excuse, for her to accomplish this feat. Therefore, with this true story, the film presents a "false character" in human nature, making it a medical case of spiritual mystery.
As the first film of the French new wave, "Four Hundred Strikes Les Quatre Cents Coups" (1959), François Truffaut paid more attention to the characters themselves, and what the characters thought was the essence of the film.
In this regard, "The Story of Adele Hugo" also shares the same connection. His protagonist seems to live outside the conditions of society, and no matter how much effort is expended, he cannot get any recognition.
The inner feelings surged out like a tide, but they had to flow to the silent ocean. Even the deepest colors are consumed by the infinite dilution of the ocean, until they can no longer find what they once were, including the gorgeous and unusual opening.
Isabelle Adjani was born in 1955 in a small town on the outskirts of Paris to a German mother and an Algerian father. In 1969, at the age of 14, Isabelle Adjani used her summer vacation to shoot her screen debut.
Isabelle Adjani (second from left) childhood photo with parents and brother
In 1974, she received a letter from the famous director François Truffaut, in which he said: "You are an extraordinary actress. With the exception of Jeanne Moreau (1928-2017), I have never been so eager to fix a face to film..."
What attracted François Truffaut deeply to Isabelle Adjani was the lightning-bright and striking temperament and charm.
François Truffaut, who is only 19 years old at first glance, is the most ideal candidate to play Adele Hugo in the love-driven "The Story of Adele Hugo", and unexpectedly, Isabel Adjani actually turned François Truffaut down.
So François Truffaut wrote in a second letter to her: "Your face alone can tell a moving story, and your gaze alone can create a dramatic atmosphere." You can even act in a movie without a storyline, and that's a documentary about you, which will rival any feature film. ”
These words eventually impressed Isabelle Adjani, which led to her nomination for Best Actress at the 48th Academy Awards in 1976.
"I don't have any more jealousy and pride / I'm far beyond pride / Since I can't have a loving smile / Then I'll go through the pain." She looked at his picture and burst into tears. She was already involuntary, and she was willing to accept the torment of love.
"About love / I have only you / When I see you / I will tell you / Any one of us is not completely in love / Then it is not true love / Many times the tide of affection / but pushed me into your arms / But when life draws us closer again / I have decided not to do anything to impress you / I will overcome it in a gentle way / A gentle way ..." She wrote in her diary.
She knew his badness, but couldn't resist his handsomeness. She gave him money, gave him women, and couldn't save his heart. After tossing and turning, she decided to turn love into hate by turning to the medium; she told her lover's father that he was nothing more than a hypocrite and a villain, but with tears in her eyes, she said, "Do you think a man can control his feelings?!" She was still in love with him.
And yet the man said, "You're ridiculous!" The saddest thing is that "the man who most wanted to give you blue eyes gave you white eyes!" ”
Adele's love for Captain Albert Bison was like taking drugs, and the more she tasted pity for the first time, the more she was rejected, the more she could not extricate herself.
Thus, the more unsatisfied, the more poisoned, the greater the addiction, the more to try to maintain the sweetness and pleasure of the initial experience: in the face of Captain Albert Penson's attitude, Adele always competed with countless "other women" for Captain Albert Penson, while fighting the humiliation suffered by her "wife", "I want to stay away from insults and jealousy?? Think of the sisters who suffered in brothels, and the women who suffered in marriage. (Film lines)
Stills from the film Adele Hugo's Story/Tears of Love L'histoire d'Adèle H. (1975), isabel Adjani and Bruce Robinson
On the one hand, he did not interfere with Captain Albert Penson's "other women" and even paid for him to buy spring. When all these efforts still could not retain The Prodigal Heart of Captain Albert Bison, Adele lied about her pregnancy at the cost of all the possessions of an unmarried woman of that era, herself and her father's honor, to keep Captain Albert Bison.
When Adele understood that Captain Albert Bison could not marry her, she married Captain Albert Bison for herself. Since then, lies and self-illusion have officially begun.
She was finally reduced and ragged to the point where even dogs were bullied, a poor but temperamental woman, "she was tormented by pain, and even if the wounds of the flesh could be restored, the wounds of the heart were fatal." "Because of the madness she lost her memory!
Adele is addicted to her own emotional world, and in her eyes, the other world is real. This subjective experience is closely related to her imagination of the mysterious other world and is "transcendental".
It is precisely because Adele has given her love a transcendental character like a literary creator that her emotional experience has a transcendental character.
Literary and artistic creators artistically create a rich and colorful literary and artistic world, Adele also artistically "creates" her own love world; the world created by artists through imagination "truly" exists in life, and the love world created by Adele through imagination also has the same nature of "authenticity".
Images of Isabelle Adjani and Bruce Robinson in the film Adele Hugo's Story/Tears L'histoire d'Adèle H. (1975).
It is precisely because the film wonderfully and unconsciously shows this "other side love" of Adele that the film has a charm beyond the ordinary.
Isabelle Adjani's performance in the film was so passionate that French film critics believed that she set a new body movement, mannerism and tone for future French actresses, and she herself became the most imitated film star in France at that time.
A French film critic once said: "I wonder if the camera that François Truffaut used to make "The Story of Adele Hugo" is still there?" The camera glass that endured isabel Adjani's gaze may have shattered, if not crazy. ”
Stills from the film The Story of Adele Hugo/ The Flower of Tears L'histoire d'Adèle H. (1975), Isabelle Adjani
François Truffaut's choice of Isabelle Adjani to play Adele meant a great deal of success, because this aristocratic, somewhat crazy, somewhat neurotic character coincided with her own temperament, as evidenced by the later Camille Claudel of Rodin's Lover/ Camille Claudel (1988). The film was also called "the most romantic film in recent years" by the authoritative media of the year.
The real-life Isabelle Adjani and her on-screen self seem to be inseparable from each other, and they are inextricably linked. In "Rodin's Lover", Isabelle Adjani explains the psychological changes of a female sculptor who is deeply tormented by love and career, disappointed in hope, and mentally broken in despair, and she is even difficult to dial herself out of the depth of her role.
Isabelle Adjani and Bruno Akiton Bruno Nuytten
The film earned her a third César Award, but she lost Bruno Arkyton Bruno Nuytten (the director of Rodin's Lover), who had been in love for many years. Later, Isabelle Adjani bore him a son, who became the tragically abandoned "Camille Claudel". She took the child alone, refused a slice, and was a single mother who was standardly responsible.
One day in 1989, when Isabelle Adjani was picking up her shopping bag in a street café and about to leave, she was greeted by a man who at first thought he was a fan, but later recognized him, and he was Daniel A. A Room with a View who had starred in films such as "Room with a View/Blue Sky Outside the Window" (1985), "Prague Love/The Unbearable Lightness of Being" (1988) and other films. Dai-Lewis Daniel Day-Lewis.
Isabelle Adjani and Daniel Day-Lewis with Daniel Day-Lewis
They were on their way home like a family of three. The love affair between the two was on the "way home" and sprouted. But both have schizophrenic personalities, and performance convinces them of their existence and is the best means of escaping reality. After a short acquaintance, both of them stopped their acting careers and seemed to enjoy a peaceful love life as if they had prepaid their lives.
Isabelle Adjani rejected two major plays, Instinctive Basic Instinct (1992) and The Unethical Deal/Peach Deal Indecent Proposal (1993), and the film's choices of Sharon Stone and Demi Moore became famous.
The first to hold back was Daniel Day-Lewis, who in 1992 went to the United States to shoot The Last of the Mohicans (1992).
In 1993, he went to the United States to star in "The Age of Innocence" (1993), which caused trouble, Daniel Day-Lewis was too deep into the play, and actress Winona Ryder came out of the scandal, which was a big harm to Isabelle Adjani. Soon, the prodigal son turned back, and Daniel Day-Lewis returned to Isabelle Adjani.
In 1995, Isabelle Adjani became pregnant again, and at the age of 40, she longed for a stable family life, but reality always opposed her, and the stronger her desire, the worse she lost. It's a kind of fate, and it's like a spell that can't be shaken off. Her lover, Daniel Day-Lewis, traveled to the United States, where she soon met arthur Miller Miller (1915-2005), a dramatist she had always admired, and soon fell in love with rebecca Miller, the dramatist's daughter.
In order to recover the deceased figure, Isabelle Adjani, like Elanoor in the film "Adolf Adolphe" (2002), went to Paris to pursue love, she could not wait to take a Hollywood drama to the United States, she and star Sharon Stone co-starred in the remake of "Labyrinth of Iniquity/ Devil's Double Sister Diabolique" (1996), the response was mediocre, Isabel Adjani finally did not find a lover.
She returned to France alone and gave birth to Daniel Day-Lewis's child, another reincarnation, after which she refused to accompany her son, as she had been abandoned by Bruno Aggyton. That's a story for another day.
Why does "The Story of Adele Hugo", a film that depicts people's pursuit of emotions that is paranoid to the point of almost madness, make people think deeply and never forget? Of course, the film's creators have a proper grasp of the film as one of the reasons.
It should be said that "The Story of Adele Hugo" is a difficult film with female themes. If you don't pay attention to it, the film seems to have a servile attachment to love, and Adele, from subservience to abusing herself, will be portrayed as a vulgar and incomprehensible, even disgusting character.
The director successfully portrayed such a pathological, paranoid, crazy obsessive-compulsive patient into an otherworldly, isolated female figure.
Many classic shots in the film have been recorded in history, such as the neurotic and beautiful and dignified look of the heroine standing on the seashore, like a thick classical oil painting embedded in a frame, which is unforgettable.
French romance films all have aesthetic romantic colors, which may be related to the romantic temperament of their nation.
François Truffaut is actually telling a story of a "crazy woman negative hearted man" that we have all seen and heard thousands of times, but the scene of the sea that appears repeatedly in the film adds a bit of dreaming and symbolic color to the protagonist's love: her sister once drowned.
She dreamed repeatedly of the sea, and she would eventually drown in the sea of lust. Tragedies are thus silently intertwined and passed into the viewer's intestines with the waves of the looming sea.
At the end of the film, Adele stands by the sea, her long hair fluttering, her skirt fluttering, Isabelle Adjani's face superimposed on the screen, and the sea swaying behind her. She looked directly at us, obsessively and persistently said to the camera: "Thousands of mountains and rivers, thousands of mountains and rivers, to meet you, this kind of thing, only I can do!" ”
Whether it's Antoine in "Four Hundred Blows" or Adele Hugo, their expressions staring at the sea are the same. If you don't understand the imperfections of life, then you don't fully understand life. But no matter how realistic the world is, the idealistic protagonists are still admirable.
In October 1975, the French magazine Telerama published a still from the film "The Story of Adele Hugo/ The Love Flower of Tears L'histoire d'Adèle H." (1975) with an introduction to Isabelle Adjani
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