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Overview

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Director:

François Truffaut

Writers:

Jan Dawson (English adaptation)
Jean Gruault (writer)
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Release Date:

8 October 1975 (France) more

Plot:

Halifax, 1863. A young woman, miss Lewly, comes to Halifax to search for Lt Pinson, whom she is madly in love with... more | add synopsis

Awards:

Nominated for Oscar. Another 9 wins & 4 nominations more

User Comments:

Monstrosity of illusion more (19 total)


Cast

  (Complete credited cast)

Isabelle Adjani ... Adèle Hugo / Adèle Lewry
Bruce Robinson ... Lt Albert Pinson
Sylvia Marriott ... Mrs. Saunders
Joseph Blatchley ... The Bookseller
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
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Additional Details

Also Known As:

The Story of Adele H (USA)
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Runtime:

96 min

Country:

France

Language:

French | English

Color:

Color (Eastmancolor)

Aspect Ratio:

1.66 : 1 more

Sound Mix:

Mono

Filming Locations:

Barbados more


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Trivia:

The film is based in true facts. more

Goofs:

Anachronisms: 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 more

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Referenced in Kamyu nante shiranai (2005) more


FAQ

What does the Gitlis say to his Chinese assistant (in Hebrew)?
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3 out of 4 people found the following comment useful.
Monstrosity of illusion, 14 January 2007
Author: Vincentiu from Romania

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.

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