The Extraordinary Adventures of Adèle Blanc-Sec
Original title: Les aventures extraordinaires d'Adèle Blanc-Sec
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An adventure set in the early part of the 20th century and focused on a popular novelist and her dealings with would-be suitors, the cops, monsters, and other distractions.An adventure set in the early part of the 20th century and focused on a popular novelist and her dealings with would-be suitors, the cops, monsters, and other distractions.An adventure set in the early part of the 20th century and focused on a popular novelist and her dealings with would-be suitors, the cops, monsters, and other distractions.
- Awards
- 2 wins & 1 nomination
Laure de Clermont-Tonnerre
- Agathe Blanc-Sec
- (as Laure de Clermont)
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- TriviaWhen the Pharoah mummy is admiring the Louvre courtyard, he says that a pyramid should be added to it. This film is set in 1912, and a pyramid was added to the courtyard in 1989.
- GoofsNear the opening scenes, immediately after the can-can scene, when Mr Ferdinand Choupard arrives in front of the Jeanne D'Arc monument, the speaker says he's in the "place des pyramides" but it appears the place got this name only in 5 January 1932: in 1911, at the time when the story goes, its name was still "place de Rivoli".
- Quotes
Adèle Blanc-Sec: [repeated line]
Adèle Blanc-Sec: Into my arms!
- Crazy creditsIn the credits there is a little story about the great wildlife hunter after he shot the prehistoric pterodactyl.
- Alternate versionsUS version was cut by ca. 2 minutes to secure a PG rating. The scene where Adèle takes a bath was edited to remove nudity and smoking. In addition Professor Espérandieu's beheading and Adèle's accident at the tennis game were edited to remove frightening images.
- ConnectionsReferenced in Special Collector's Edition: Titanic - 1ª Edición (2011)
- SoundtracksCan Can No. 3
Written by Jacques Offenbach
Performed by The Cincinnati Pops Orchestra
Conducted by Erich Kunzel (as Eric Kunzel)
Featured review
In 1911, in Paris, the bold journalist Adèle Blanc-Sec (Louise Bourgoin) is assigned by her editor to travel to Peru to write about the Incas, but she goes to Egypt instead to seek out the mummy of a doctor of Ramses II to bring him to Paris. Adèle has an agreement with Professor Marie-Joseph Espérandieu (Jacky Nercessian) that has the ability of bringing the dead back to life to resurrect the doctor to heel her twin sister Agathe Blanc-Sec (Laure de Clermont), who has been catatonic and paraplegic for five years due to an accident caused by Adèle. However, Professor Espérandieu is arrested in prison and sentenced to death after bringing to life a pterodactyl from an ancient egg in Louvre that caused the death of three persons. Now the last hope of Agathe is that Adèle saves Professor Espérandieu from the guillotine.
"Les Aventures Extraordinaires d'Adèle Blanc-Sec" is a highly entertaining and funny adventure by Luc Besson. Last week, I was zapping the television and I saw the last part of the adventure of Adèle Blanc- Sec. Today I have just watched this movie on DVD with my family and we really enjoyed the story. The weird and bizarre characters slightly recall the surrealism of Marc Caro and Jean-Pierre Jeunet in "Delicatessen and "La Cité des Enfants Perdus". My vote is seven.
Title (Brazil): "As Múmias do Faraó"("The Mummies of the Pharaoh")
"Les Aventures Extraordinaires d'Adèle Blanc-Sec" is a highly entertaining and funny adventure by Luc Besson. Last week, I was zapping the television and I saw the last part of the adventure of Adèle Blanc- Sec. Today I have just watched this movie on DVD with my family and we really enjoyed the story. The weird and bizarre characters slightly recall the surrealism of Marc Caro and Jean-Pierre Jeunet in "Delicatessen and "La Cité des Enfants Perdus". My vote is seven.
Title (Brazil): "As Múmias do Faraó"("The Mummies of the Pharaoh")
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- Also known as
- Adèle and the Secret of the Mummy
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- Budget
- €31,340,000 (estimated)
- Gross worldwide
- $34,604,339
- Runtime1 hour 47 minutes
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- Aspect ratio
- 2.35 : 1
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By what name was The Extraordinary Adventures of Adèle Blanc-Sec (2010) officially released in Canada in French?
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