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Isabelle Adjani

Isabelle Adjani

Isabelle Yasmine Adjani

1955.6.27 ~

There is a kind of otherworldly beauty

Pure blue eyes

Beautiful red lips

A head of black flowing hair...

Not only is she beautiful, but she is also talented.

5-time César Award for Best Actress

Cannes and Berlin Film Festival Best Actress Awards

Nominated for Best Actress at the Oscars twice

The most representative actress in French cinema in the 1980s

Thousands of mountains and rivers, thousands of mountains and rivers,

Come to meet you,

Only I can do this kind of thing.

——The story of Adele Hugo

Born on June 27, 1955 in a small town on the outskirts of Paris, France, his family moved to Jennuberie shortly after his birth.

Adjani's mother is German Augusta, her father is Algerian Mohammed Cherif Adjani, and she has a younger brother, Eric Adjani, who is a photographer.

Mother Augusta and father Mohammed Cherif Adjani

Eric Adjani

Influenced by the artistic atmosphere in the surrounding area, she began amateur drama performances when she was still in elementary school.

In 1969, when she was only 14 years old, Adjani used her summer vacation to shoot her screen debut. While continuing her studies, she also participated in some stage plays and TV series.

In 1970, when Isabelle was 15 years old, she was selected by the director to participate in the filming of her first film "The Little Coal Merchant" because of her beautiful appearance and innocent eyes. Two years later, she was invited to film "Foskina and the Beautiful Summer". After the filming, although she continued to attend middle school, her image has appeared on French TV and provincial drama stages from time to time, and she is deeply loved by the French audience. Later, with her many years of performance practice, she was finally admitted to the famous French Comedy Theater, performing in Moliere's comedy "The School for Wives" and many other stage plays, playing various roles with different personalities. Rich stage practice has enabled her to accumulate certain performance experience.

Small coal merchant

Le Petit bougnat (1970)

Faustin and the beautiful summer

Faustine et le bel été (1972)

miser

L'Avare (1973)

In 1974, Adjani's wonderful performance in the film "The Slap" won unanimous praise from critics, and she made up her mind to devote herself to the film industry. When she participated in the filming of the film "The Slap", people were surprised to find that her acting skills had improved significantly; for this, she won the Performance Zanna Award.

Slap

La Gifle (1974)

Photo by Michel Ristroph f, 1974.

Photo by Claude Azoulay, 1974

In January 1975, the Comédie-Francaise offered Adjani a 20-year contract, but still failed to retain her. That year, the famous French director Truffaut invited Adjani to play the leading role in his new film "The Story of Adele Hugo". With this film, Adjani was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actress. This film also created a good start for her to enter the international stage.

At the age of 20, Adjani played the daughter of the great writer Victor Hugo in Adele Hugo. This film made Isabelle famous overnight and she not only won the César Award but also got nominated for an Oscar. Isabelle's second Oscar nomination was also for playing a famous woman in history, Camille Claudel (Rodin's lover).

Adele Hugo's Story

L'histoire d'Adèle H. (1975)

Due to the director's full trust and letting her go, she acted freely and fully portrayed the worried character of Adele, the daughter of the great French writer Victor Hugo, in the passionate love. Therefore, she was called the outstanding talent of the new generation of French film and the most outstanding female star in French film, and was nominated for the Oscar for Best Actress. This film became the cornerstone of Anjelica's success and created a good start for her to enter the international stage.

This is adapted from a true story. Hugo's daughter Adele fell madly in love with a junior officer named Hiramatsu who was used to playing with women. She paid the price of her life for this. Adele's tragedy is that she was born in an extraordinary family and became the ordinary daughter of a great writer. It is better to say that Adele fell madly in love with her love for Hiramatsu than to say that Adele was madly in love with Hiramatsu. Isabelle Adjani's performance in the film is real, natural, and detailed, and she portrayed a woman with a neurotic and false personality to the core.

Photo by Henry Clarke, 1975

From then on, Adjani's desire to perform became unstoppable. She entered a creative peak that lasted for ten years. The entire French film industry in the 1980s almost became her world.

Strange Tenant

Le locataire (1976)

Although praises and honors have been overwhelming, Anjani has not become complacent or slacked off, and her creative juices are still flowing continuously.

Violet and Francois

Violette & François (1977)

Extracting teeth from the tiger's mouth

The Driver (1978)

Nosferatu: Ghosts of the Night

Nosferatu: Phantom der Nacht (1979)

The Bronte sisters

Les sœurs Brontë (1979)

In 1979, she lived with French director Bruno Nuytten and had a son, Barnabé Adjani Nuytten, but they never got married.

Bruno Nuytten and Isabelle Adjani

Photo by Eva Sereny, 1980

In 1981, Adjani first refused to act in "Summer of Death" because of the nude scenes in the film. She had rejected Buñuel's "The Hidden Purpose of Desire" because of her fear of nude scenes. But at the Cannes Film Festival that year, Adjani won the Best Actress Award for "Quartet" and "Possessed".

Quartet

Quartet (1981)

Obsessed

Possession (1981)

In 1982, she won the César Award for Best Actress for her role in the film "Possessed".

Photo by Pierre Guillaud, 1982

In 1983, Adjani withdrew from the production of Carmen a few days after filming began. In the fall of that year, Adjani starred in Mademoiselle Julie at the Edward VII Theatre, but a few days into the show, she withdrew from the show because she was "too tired."

True Love Escape

Mortelle randonnée (1983)

The murderous summer

L'été meurtrier (1983)

In 1984, she won the César Award for Best Actress again for her role in the film "Summer of Death".

subway

Subway (1985)

Ishtar

Ishtar (1987)

In 1988, Adjani starred in the film "Rodin's Lover". With this film, she won the title of Best Actress for the third time at the César Awards that year. She also won the Berlin Film Festival and was nominated for an Oscar for the second time. After filming "Rodin's Lover", Adjani retired from the film industry for a time. She rejected "Basic Instinct" and "Unfair Proposal", two films that seemed to make her famous and wealthy, and immersed herself in the whirlpool of love with British actor Daniel Day-Lewis.

Rodin's Lover

Camille Claudel (1988)

In the film "Rodin's Lover", Adjani vividly depicts the psychological changes of a female artist who is exhausted and suffers a mental breakdown under the double torture of love and career, and the huge contrast between hope, disappointment and despair. She is so deeply involved in the role that she can hardly extricate herself.

In 1990, she won the César Superstar Award together with Gerard Depardieu, and in the same year was selected as one of the 50 most beautiful women in the world by Popular magazine.

In the early 1990s, Isabelle disappeared from the film industry for a while, and did not return to the public until 1993 in the film Obsessed. In 1994, Adjani returned to the film industry and starred in the French film Queen Margot, which was the most expensive film in France at the time. She won the César Award for the fourth time and became a French national treasure actress.[8] After that, Isabelle co-starred with American star Sharon Stone in the remake of Labyrinth.

Obsessive Love

Toxic Affair (1993)

Queen Margot

La Reine Margot (1994)

Among these French beauties, she does not have the most works, but she is famous for her changeable personality and bold performance. Some people compare her to the French Sharon Stone. When it comes to bold performance, Adjani and Sharon Stone are naturally on par, but when it comes to changeable personality and superb acting skills, I am afraid that Sharon Stone and others cannot compare. The biggest feature of Isabelle Adjani's performance is that she does not externalize her romantic temperament, but is good at internalizing her romantic temperament and is good at expressing more complex alternative women. She is particularly good at grasping the complex and changeable psychological characteristics of alternative women and the sense of proportion in performance. In the film "Queen Margot", her performance is almost perfect. In "Queen Margot", Isabelle Adjani plays Margot, the sister of the King of France. This woman who grew up in court struggles has courage and perseverance that men cannot match, but is also lustful and unrestrained. At the end of the film, when her beloved man died, she finally woke up and resolutely left the country of drunkenness and debauchery. Because of her unique temperament and complex performance in "Queen Margot", Adjani won the 1995 French Cesar Award for Best Actress, thus becoming a national treasure-level actress in France.

In 1995, she gave birth to her second child, Gabriel-Kane Adjani Day Lewis, with Daniel Day-Lewis, who married Rebecca Miller, the daughter of the famous American writer Arthur Miller.

Maze of Evil

Diabolique (1996)

In 1996, Isabelle co-starred with American star Sharon Stone in the remake of "Labyrinth of Sin". After that, except for a short period of filming 4 movies in 2003, Adjani did not take any movies for 10 years to take care of her young son.

Repentant Woman

Repentie, La (2002)

Adolf

Adolphe (2002)

Bon Voyage

Bon Voyage (2003)

The days of flying skirts

La journée de la jupe (2008)

In 2009, Adjani returned to the film industry with "Skirts Fly" and won the César Award for the record fifth time in 2010.

On February 27, 2010, Anjani won the César Award for the fifth time for her performance in "Skirts Fly".

David and Mrs. Hanson

David et Madame Hansen (2012)

Photo by Youssef Nabil, Paris 2014

Photo by Katerina Jebb, 2014

With a voice as sweet as crystal, a smile as innocent as a girl, and a serious and charming way of speaking, Adjani has become a "goddess" of eternal youth in the eyes of the French, just like Marilyn Monroe's image is always fixed as a young woman, sexy and attractive. But compared with Monroe, Adjani has more temperament of thinking and thought.She is a rare actress in history who is difficult to classify, difficult to comment on, atypical and unique.

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