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Isabelle Adjani in Confession
Paris—Although extremely apologetic, Isabelle Adjani is slightly late. The problem is her cats, Rose and Lizzie. Their litter has to be changed. However, in spite of forgetting to reserve, Le Meurice hotel quickly arranges her favourite table. Not unlike the poetic and porcelain-skinned Adjani, it manages to be central, dramatic yet isolated from the crowd. In this instance, the other tables. When she appears, her eyes penetrate. Bright blue, they are kitten-like – flicking with countless emotions – suggesting childlike innocence, an enquiring mind and a mercurial personality. Ever since she exploded with Truffaut’s The Story of Adèle H, the French actress has created a Garbo-like mystique and delivered Oscar-nominated tortured performances only to disappear then reappear. There have been hiccups, yet the phoenix-like Isabelle tends to return and surprise – proof that the soulful can be armed with an inner strength. Here, in flawless American English, she muses over her career and opens up about her latest projects.
NAF: Isabelle, your biopic Isabelle Yasmine Adjani was born in Gennevilliers, Hauts-de-Seine, a suburb of Paris, to Emma Augusta "Gusti" (Schweinberger) and Mohammed Adjani. Her father was a Kabyle Algerian, from Iferhounène, and her mother was a Bavarian German. She grew up speaking German fluently. After winning a school recitation contest, she began acting in amateur theater by the age of twelve. At the age of 14, she starred in her first motion picture, Le Petit Bougnat (1970). Adjani has appeared in 30 films since 1970. She holds the record for most César Award for Best Actress (5), which she won for Possession (1981), One Deadly Summer (1983) (aka "One Deadly Summer"), Camille Claudel (1988), Queen Margot (1994) (aka "Queen Margot") and Skirt Day (2008) (aka "Skirt Day"). She was also given a double Cannes Film Festival Best Actress Award in 1981. She also received two Academy Award nominations for Best Actress. She performs in French, English, Italian and German. Adjani was made a Chevalier de la Légion d'honneur in 2010. BornJune 27, 1955 Of the outstanding actress from the mid-sixties to today, the ones who move me most are the ones who have the feu sacré, that magical alliance of talent and intensity that, beyond making a performance compelling, carries it into the sublime. I’m thinking of Vanessa Redgrave and Glenda Jackson, Liv Ullmann and Margit Carstensen, Isabelle Huppert and Nicole Kidman, and above all, Isabelle Adjani. Why Adjani above all? Simply because of her incandescence in walking the knife-edge of the feminine, finding resonances between her life and her roles that make her heroines luminous. Never power without vulnerability, never experience without innocence, never achievement without challenge: with these intuitions her acting is infused, and when she uses them to portray a woman in love, she is, as an actress, untouchable. Love, the feminine, acting—these are the themes I will address in this 4-part post on Isabelle Adjani: Part 1: Introduction, Part 2: The Story of Adèle H. (François Truffaut, 1975), Part 3: Adolphe (Benoit Jacquot, 2002), Part 4
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Isabelle Adjani Actress 1: Introduction
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