Isabel Adjani was born in a small town on the outskirts of Paris in 1955 to a German mother and an Algerian father. In 1969, Adjani, who was only 14 years old, used the summer vacation to shoot her screen debut. In 1974, she received a letter from the famous director Truffaut, in which he said: "You are an extraordinary actress. I have never been so eager to put a The face is fixed on the film..." It was the lightning-like temperament and charm that attracted him deeply. At first glance, Adjani, who was only 19 years old, was the ideal candidate to play the love-mad Adele Hugo. Unexpectedly, Adjani rejected Truffaut, so Truffaut Fu wrote in a second letter to her: "Your face alone can tell a moving story, and your gaze alone can create a dramatic atmosphere. You can even play a movie without a storyline. A film about you, that’s a documentary about you, and it will rival any feature film.” These words eventually moved the soulful Adjani and earned her the Oscar for Best Actress that year. nominate.
At the end of the film, Adele stands by the sea with her long hair fluttering and her skirt fluttering. Adele's face is superimposed on the screen, and the sea water is rippling behind her. She looked directly at us, and said obsessively and persistently to the camera: "There are thousands of mountains and rivers, thousands of mountains and rivers, to meet you, this kind of thing, only I can do it!"
About this scene, Mao Jian'er once In his book, he commented at length: "This shot is probably the most frenzied stare a moviegoer has ever experienced. Adjani stared straight at us from the screen, her breathless tone of voice. Come on, her crazy beauty is heartbreaking, this shot is a test for the audience, because Adjani's frantic look strongly calls us to join: either stay in a safe place to grow old, or enter her kingdom , burning. Truffaut doesn't have to worry about the realism of the film at all, he magnifies Adjani's whispers to the point of shouting, and the audience has to decide for themselves whether to stay, or to share the fate of the characters, or to get out of the way..."
See At this moment, are you sure you can dodge it? Are you sure you can dodge?
A film critic once commented: "I don't know if the camera used by Truffaut to film "The Story of Adele Hugo" is still there? Because the glass of the camera that endured the stare of Adele is not crazy, it must be broken. Cracked."
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