Francois Truffaut's biotragedy THE STORY OF ADELE H (1975). For nearly thirty years French beauty Isabelle Adjani held the second for the Young Best Actress Nominee of all time, she was 20 when Adele H made her an international star. To add to Adjani's Oscar Curio factor, she still holds another record: she's the only actress ever nominated twice for French language performances. Nomination #2 came for another biotragedy Camille Claudel (1988). Marion Cotillard surely hopes to tie that particular Best Actress, record later this year in Rust and Bone (2012).Adjani all but vanished from silence round about the time she and Daniel Day-Lewis procreated and split. The sensational Queen Margot (1994) and the reviled Diabolique (1996) with Sharon Stone where her last big draws so many readers are unfamiliar and that this Best Shot subject would be a fresh choice.Adele H doesn't just lie to herself though. She lies to virtually everyone in her relentless pursuit of her former lover Lt. Albert Pinson (Bruce Robinson) who she intends to marry. She punder herself repeatedly on her willingness to cross the Ocean for him, a big deal in 1863.
Francois Truffaut's marriage of traditional costume drama and nouvelle vague experimentation is sometimes an akward one the film's take on letter which Adele mostly reads aloud as she writes, sometimes directly to the camera as in this gorgeous passage when Adele recites an entire letter to daddy while the camera actually crosses the Ocean (and then some maps) to deliver it.
She writes a letter to daddy. . .
My dear Parents, I have just married Lieutenant Pinson. The ceremony took place Saturday in a church in Halifax. I need money for my trousseau. I must have 300 francs immediately. . . in addition to my allowance. If you'd taken care of my music as I've ask you 100 times that could bring me in some money and I wouldn't have to behave like a beggar.
It's in the letter readings when Adjani earns the historic Oscar nominations. Her lies are so proud and delivered with such entitled petulance what she almost seems thrilled to be reciting them. What's false is true and Adele believes this with religious conviction. And not just Sunday only conviction but a text-revical sort of fanaticism. Similarly perverse beats occur when she seems turned on by it. Pinson's sexual interest in everyone but her. Adjani is also excellent at delineating Adele's complex relationship to her family name.
Great moments in costuming. Toward the end of the film, the inevitable occurs and Adele's internal madness is acutely externalized. After a day bites at her heels, tearing her dress, she wanders the streets. In an 18 second unbroken shot she approach oblivion to the camera she's often looking at. The camera briefly focuses on the ragged hem of her once rich gown as she pulls in before it pans up again to, a bookstore window where Adele's lonely never-suitor stares at his former friend, non utterly alien. She spins about on the street muttering (inaudible) nonsense to herself. She's always spoken nonsense but now that everyone can hear it for what it is, there's no point in listening.
A supercut trailer for the male stripper movie "Magic Mike" has been released, this trailer is rated R+18.
Here's a short sypnosis: A male stripper (Tatum) teaches a young performer (Pettyfer) how to party, pick up women & make easy money.
Strip dancing begins in US theathers June 29, 2012. It is scheduled to be released in the Philippines on July 11, 2012. Watch the red band trailer here:
