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Surprisingly, Truffaut chose not to build the film solely out of psychological depth and intensity. The Story of Adele H. alternates between the depth of Adele's passion and the uncomprehending world around her. The audience is not subjected to and unrelieved barrage of profundity. The strange thing about Truffaut's perspective is that the everyday world doesn't destroy Adele, doesn't hamper her, and doesn't seem devalued compared with her own state of mind. Adele destroys herself while the world looks on benignly. With the exception of the callous (though not evil) lieutenant there are only good...
Directed by FRANCOIS TRUFFAUT...
Screenplay by FRANCOIS TRUFFAUT, JEAN GRUAULT and SUZANNE SCHIFFMAN...
Something is amiss. The Story of Adele H. is a lovely, sometimes almost ravishing reflection on lost lives. Of all François Truffaut's films, it is the most beautiful. In Adele, Truffaut has found a heroine who perfectly embodies and reflects his own intense romanticism. And in the course of her torturous love affair, Truffaut can further chart-as he did in Jules and Jim and The Mississippi Mermaid-the shattering refractions of an obsession. Yet there is something lacking-perspective, for one thing; also, curiously, passion...
Gift of Love. The film's slightly academic tone may be a reflection of its origins. Six years ago, Truffaut read a biography of Victor Hugo's younger daughter Adele, which was based largely on her coded diaries. The movie is a scrupulous adaptation and elaboration of Adele's strange history. Adele, haunted by the death of her older sister Leopoldine-her father's favorite-followed a British lieutenant, Albert Pinson, to his post in Nova Scotia. She had fallen in love with Pinson during her father's political exile in Guernsey, and even broke...