L'histoire d'Adèle H. (1975)

Nommé pour 1 Oscar
- 11 victoires et 5 nominations au total

Rôles principaux24

Modifier

Isabelle Adjani

Adèle Hugo

Bruce Robinson

Lt Albert Pinson

Sylvia Marriott

Mrs. Saunders

Joseph Blatchley

Mr. Whistler

Ivry Gitlis

Hypnotist

Louise Bourdet

Victor Hugo's servant

Cecil De Sausmarez

Mr. Lenoir

Ruben Dorey

Mr. Saunders

Clive Gillingham

Keaton

Roger Martin

Doctor Murdock

M. White

Colonel White
(as Mr White)

Madame Louise

Madame Baa

Jean-Pierre Leursse

Black penpusher

Geoffroy Crook

George, servant at Johnstone's
(non crédité)

Chantal Durpoix

Young whore
(non crédité)

Raymond Falla

Judge Johnstone
(non crédité)

David Foote

David, a young boy
(non crédité)

Jacques Frejabue

Cabinetmaker
(non crédité)

Le saviez-vous

Modifier

Anecdotes
Initially 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.

Gaffes
The 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

Citations
Adèle Hugo: I'm your wife. Forever. We'll stay together until we die.

Connexions
Featured in 48th Annual Academy Awards (1976)

I loved this film, not only because I live in the city in which the story happened. Films based on personal diaries are always fascinating ('Heavenly Creatures') and this one is also haunting, due partly to the sepia tones. Adele lives in a bubble of despair, rarely venturing out from her tiny room. Her story is a sad one, painful and full of longing and Truffaut captures Adele's sense of isolation, of being out of this world, perfectly. You won't cry, the film is not manipulative, but you will empathize, you will feel her pain.