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With her pouty face and magnificently sleek body, Isabelle Adjani looks like a Barbie doll grown up and gone bad. At 28, she has become the divine masochist of the French cinema, playing Truffaut's Adele H., or a woman who gives birth to a monster in Possession. This time Adjani has turned on her siren to play a troubled tramp in a village in southern France. In a cartoon of lust, she sashays provocatively down the main street, shimmies at the local dance, strides naked through backyards-all because of some dreadful childhood demons that take Director Jean...
...hovers wordlessly in virtually every scene of the Don's, often exchanging intimate glances with him. A nemesis? An illegitimate son? A homosexual lover? (A dubious motif also suggested by the epicene revelers at the Don's supper.) The figure, mimed with sullen sensuality by Eric Adjani (Isabelle's brother), remains cryptic and annoyingly gratuitous. He does, however, make a perfect emblem for Losey's whole approach. This Don Giovanni deserves the old line once used by Dorothy Parker to describe the Alps: beautiful but dumb...
...camera, Isabelle Adjani is a tough, no-nonsense Frenchwoman who regards acting as an art of deception, "fake all the time." But on camera, she is developing a persona as a romantic heroine. As Victor Hugo's tragic, love-struck daughter in The Story of Adele H., she won an Oscar nomination. In her latest role, Adjani, 23, plays Emily Bronte, author of Wuthering Heights. After resting up in the languorous countryside of Provence, she plans to tackle yet another demanding role: Marguerite, a jilted lover, in a movie based on La Dame aux Camélias by Alexandre...
...crooks can indulge in a top-speed car chase through downtown Los Ange les for 20 minutes without attracting a single squad car, when you or I get hauled in just for failing to make a left-turn signal? How come Hill insists on making the leading lady (Isabelle Adjani) so enigmatic, so much the dark lady of a thou sand bad screenplays, that the entire audience giggles every time she talks without moving her lips? And, finally, how come the Department of Energy didn't shut this picture down? It must have cost Kuwait's entire monthly...
...Pomme isn't a child, and she certainly isn't the kind of wild-eyed romantic that Isabelle Adjani played in The Story of Adele H. And even children survive hurt--why can't Pomme? Goretta, trying to give his heroine some womanly depth without taking away her innocence, creates a victim whose suffering can't be believed...