{"id":17712,"date":"2025-08-10T21:00:17","date_gmt":"2025-08-11T01:00:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/?p=17712"},"modified":"2025-08-09T12:55:28","modified_gmt":"2025-08-09T16:55:28","slug":"histoire-dadele-h-1975-francois-truffaut","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/archives\/17712","title":{"rendered":"Histoire d’Ad\u00e8le H. (1975, Francois Truffaut)"},"content":{"rendered":"

Obviously watched this in tribute to my own Adele H., but the two Adeles wouldn’t seem to have much in common.<\/p>\n

Isabelle Adjani travels to Halifax from France during the American Civil War to stalk her ex Lt. Pinson (Withnail & I<\/a><\/em> director Bruce Robinson), telling everyone different stories about who he is, lost in love with a loser gambler who doesn’t respect her at all. She takes to trying to ruin his life, bribery, hypnotism, hiding her belatedly-revealed identity as the daughter of Victor Hugo or using it as suits her needs, until she ends up getting rescued from her doomed quest and gets locked in an asylum for the next sixty years.<\/p>\n

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Reminded me of the Sternberg\/Dietrich Morocco<\/a><\/em> – before indie rock was invented people didn’t know how to process these feelings. Adjani is gorgeous, of course, and the movie often looks nice, but it doesn’t make a strong case for itself with the monotonous story and inelegant editing.<\/p>\n

Dreaming of drowning:<\/em>
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Isabelle gone Barbados:<\/em>
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Obviously watched this in tribute to my own Adele H., but the two Adeles wouldn’t seem to have much in common. Isabelle Adjani travels to Halifax from France during the American Civil War to stalk her ex Lt. Pinson (Withnail & I director Bruce Robinson), telling everyone different stories about who he is, lost in […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[400,3416,662,53,1857,2297],"class_list":["post-17712","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-movie","tag-1970s","tag-barbados","tag-civil-war","tag-francois-truffaut","tag-isabelle-adjani","tag-victor-hugo"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17712","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17712"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17712\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17758,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17712\/revisions\/17758"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17712"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17712"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17712"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}