FREE ON CINEGEEK.DE Francois Trauffaut - The Story Of Adele H 

Adele was the daughter of Victor Hugo. In the diaries she left behind, she described the story of her love. A damned love. In exile, where she lived with her father, she was seduced by the British Lieutenant Pinson. Adele fell in love with Pinson, and Pinson loved to be a little in love. Until he would conquer the next one. Pinson asked Adele to marry him, but of course he didn't mean it more serious than his personality would allow. But Adele reacts with such fierce love that it will destroy her whole life. Pinson is transferred to Harifax. Adele follows him. She spies on him, sends him a whore. Adele calls herself Mme. Pinson from now on and writes letters to her family that she is well. She lies about being pregnant. But at night in her dreams, she's drowning. Even before that, Francois Truffaut had devoted himself to dark women like Adele. They form a counterweight to his light heroes like "Antoine Doinel". Often these women of Truffaut's go mad, have a sick idea of sexuality and their relationships end deadly. Their men try to manipulate and destroy them. You can now think for yourself about Truffaut's attitude towards women. Are there any normally developed women at all with him? At least that's something you won't find in many Truffaut films. Isabelle Adjani plays Adele. Adjani is dark-haired and pale and very beautiful. She slowly loses all sense of reality. At the end she walks around in rags with an empty gaze. She no longer even recognizes the love of her life. The merit of Adjani is to give this figure something like nobility nevertheless. She would cross the sea for her love, writes this so determined woman. But Adele loves far too much to a far too daring degree. In a way, Adele is not of this world. P.S. Later, Adjani declared she would never again shoot with Truffaut. You can read how she rejected the director as a lover. Then Truffaut wrote: "It would be too easy to say she is difficult, she is not. She is different from all the women in this profession and since she isn't even 20, add to all this (to her genius, let's not be afraid of words), an unawareness of others and their vulnerability, which creates an unbelievable tension." I think Adjani was angry that Truffaut patronized her as a genius.