IMDb RATING
7.2/10
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The story of Adèle Hugo's unrequited love for a lieutenant.The story of Adèle Hugo's unrequited love for a lieutenant.The story of Adèle Hugo's unrequited love for a lieutenant.
- Nominated for 1 Oscar
- 11 wins & 5 nominations total
M. White
- Colonel White
- (as Mr White)
Geoffroy Crook
- George, servant at Johnstone's
- (uncredited)
Chantal Durpoix
- Young whore
- (uncredited)
Raymond Falla
- Judge Johnstone
- (uncredited)
David Foote
- David, a young boy
- (uncredited)
Jacques Frejabue
- Cabinetmaker
- (uncredited)
Storyline
Did you know
- TriviaInitially planned as a grand-scale spectacular drama with Jeanne Moreau to play the lead, then Catherine Deneuve (then having an affair with François Truffaut) was considered for the role. The film took 7 years to be made, and finally Truffaut decided on Isabelle Adjani whom he noticed on a TV broadcast of the Comédie Française.
- GoofsThe hypnotist has a plant in the audience pretending to be a member of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police, which was not set up until a decade after the story's setting of 1863
- Quotes
Adèle Hugo: I'm your wife. Forever. We'll stay together until we die.
- ConnectionsFeatured in The 48th Annual Academy Awards (1976)
Featured review
A woman with a serious affliction, an overwhelming, all-consuming, mad obsession; starts to stalk her so called love, takes wide boundaries and she shoves, with grave consequence, and a dour deep depression.
It's a pitiful tale of a woman who is not in control of her actions or her words, whether that's inherited or due to her upbringing, her father's fame or the loss of her sister so young, who knows. Wonderfully performed by a youthful Isabelle Adjani, I'm not sure it travels into contemporary times as well as some of the directors other fabrications, and for a relatively short presentation, it drags its feet to an end that you anticipate not long after the ship has docked in Nova Scotia.
It's a pitiful tale of a woman who is not in control of her actions or her words, whether that's inherited or due to her upbringing, her father's fame or the loss of her sister so young, who knows. Wonderfully performed by a youthful Isabelle Adjani, I'm not sure it travels into contemporary times as well as some of the directors other fabrications, and for a relatively short presentation, it drags its feet to an end that you anticipate not long after the ship has docked in Nova Scotia.
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Box office
- Gross US & Canada
- $509
- Opening weekend US & Canada
- $11,206
- Apr 25, 1999
- Gross worldwide
- $509
- Runtime1 hour 36 minutes
- Sound mix
- Aspect ratio
- 1.66 : 1
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