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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
Brilliant for the precise description of a very subtle frame of mind. Adele's ways are not obsession's expressions, not love or ambition. It is only necessity to live, to be, to build a sense without the protective father's shadow.
And Adjani is charming in a great character who engrosses audience's energy. It is a desire's story but not only desire. It is a cruel adventure, mixed madness and ambition, Emma Bovary world's slices, fear and expectation and an absurd fight.
It is a grotesque Don Quixote's story with oily nuances. Story of propriety like existence's purpose. The dream like escape and the rules like useless convention. In fact,a strange illustration of "Beyond Good and Evil".
A beautiful film about desire's monstrosity,helplessness, misunderstanding,misfortune, illusion's honey and feeling's corpse.
And Adjani is charming in a great character who engrosses audience's energy. It is a desire's story but not only desire. It is a cruel adventure, mixed madness and ambition, Emma Bovary world's slices, fear and expectation and an absurd fight.
It is a grotesque Don Quixote's story with oily nuances. Story of propriety like existence's purpose. The dream like escape and the rules like useless convention. In fact,a strange illustration of "Beyond Good and Evil".
A beautiful film about desire's monstrosity,helplessness, misunderstanding,misfortune, illusion's honey and feeling's corpse.
Details
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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