Isabel Adjani, the name may be just a strange and mysterious symbol for many people. She is a legend in French cinema and a nuisance in French cinema. She is the first face of France and the first madman of France. She is the only actress in the history of French cinema to have won the César Award for Best Actress five times, and she is also the most difficult and unpredictable actress in the history of French cinema. Her life, like her films, is full of conflict, passion, madness, and destruction. Her beauty, like her eyes, is both seductive and indifferent, innocent and **, fragile and strong. Her story, like her characters, is unforgettable, irresistible, and incomprehensible.
From angels to demons.
Adjani was born in Paris, France, in 1955 to a mixed-race father of Algerian origin and a German mother. Amazingly beautiful and talented from an early age, she spoke fluent French and German, starred in her first film at the age of 14, was admitted to the Théâtre de la Rélétique de la Régimbal at the age of 16, and at the age of 19 filmed the famous "", playing the heart-warming Ophelia. Her beauty, like the eyes of a fawn in an oil painting, stares at the camera like water vapor, making people think that she is a fragile and innocent beauty. Her beauty also made her an actress who was known as "France's No. 1 Beauty" at the time, and later Sophie Marceau wore her name and called her "Little Adjani".
But such a beautiful little girl, but her father doesn't love her mother. Her father, a wounded World War II veteran, was not very good at earning, was dissatisfied with life, and was strict with his daughter, even forbidding her to look in the mirror. Her mother, a German woman who married far away from France, felt that she had bought a stock that had fallen and never had a good face for her daughter. Her childhood was full of domestic violence and interpersonal sensitivity, which also became the background color of her character. Her beauty, like her eyes, is both innocent and **, fragile and strong.
Her beauty also allowed her to meet the two most important men in her life, one is the great director of the New Wave, Truffaut, and the other is the three-time Oscar-winning actor Lewis. They are both people who are obsessed with movies, extremely vulnerable and sensitive, they are all attracted to Adjani's beauty and talent, they both have had a passionate and painful love with Adjani, they both bring honor and disaster to Adjani, they both make Adjani turn from an angel into a demon.
In 1974, Truffaut struggled to find the right actress for the filming of "Adele Hugo's Tale" until he met 19-year-old Adjani at the Académie Française. Impressed by her beauty and temperament, he wrote her a letter inviting her to play the role of Adele: "Your face alone can tell a moving story, your gaze alone can create dramatic atmosphere, and you can even act in a film without a storyline, which is a documentary about you, which will be comparable to any feature film." Adjani accepted Truffaut's invitation and became the youngest Ottie actress with the role of Adele. In the film, she plays Hugo's daughter, a woman who goes crazy for love, and her eyes are full of persistence, pain, despair and destruction. Her eyes also made her and Adele one, and her love also made her and Truffaut one. She and Truffaut have been in love for 10 years, and their love, like their films, is full of conflict, passion, madness and destruction. Their love also made her the goddess of the new wave, and also made her a trouble for the new wave.
In 1983, Adjani had just won the César Award for Best Actress, but because she was dissatisfied with her work as a photographer, she withdrew from Godard's "Carmen", another great director of the New Wave. She also lashed out at Godard, saying that he was a "selfish man who disrespects actors." Godard was furious about this, believing that Adjani had "slandered" the entire film crew. That year, "Famous Carmen" won the best film in Venice, and of course it didn't have a chance with Adjani. Also in 1983, Adjani also made a famous "Cannes refusal to shoot incident", when she went to Cannes to promote the movie "A Dead Summer", she refused to take pictures of the photographer according to the usual practice before walking the red carpet, isn't this embarrassing for the workers?Result when.
These turmoil did not affect Adjani's acting career, she still relied on her talent and beauty to create one classic role after another. Her acting skills, like her eyes, are both deep and smart, crazy and calm, painful and happy. Her role, like her life, is unavoidable, undefined, and unignorant.
From demons to angels.
Adjani's acting career has also experienced ups and downs and turns. In the late '80s, she fell into a slump due to her breakup with Lewis, and she almost disappeared from the screen, only occasionally starring in small roles or short films. Her beauty also began to become old and stiff, and her eyes began to become empty and confused.
It wasn't until the mid-90s that she returned to the audience's attention, starring in an epic romance film "Queen Margot", in which she played a legendary queen in French history, her beauty was rejuvenated, and her eyes shone with wisdom again. Her acting skills have also been recognized by the industry again, and she won the Best Actress Award at the 20th French Film César Awards for this film, becoming an evergreen in the French film industry.
Since then, Adjani has starred in some different types of movies, including the thriller "Labyrinth", the comedy "Strange Tenant", the drama "The Repentant Woman", the romance film "Love in Paris", etc., her acting skills are becoming more and more mature and diverse, her beauty is becoming more and more restrained and elegant, and her eyes are becoming more and more gentle and affectionate.
In 2010, Adjani won the Best Actress Award at the 35th César Awards for her feature film "The Day the Skirt Horns Fly", which is the fifth time she has won this honor and the only actress in the history of French cinema to do so. Her beauty, like her eyes, is tough and soft, confident and humble, independent and warm.
From angels to fugitives.
Adjani's acting career is also full of controversy and negativity. In 2018, she was ordered by the French prosecutor's office to sentence her to 18 months in suspended prison and a fine of 250,000 euros on suspicion of serious tax fraud and money laundering. Instead of attending the trial and not obeying the verdict, she continued to make films and records, becoming a fugitive and facing more serious legal consequences. Her beauty, like her eyes, is both stubborn and stubborn, fearless and disregardful, free and selfish.
Adjani is a complex woman, and her life, like her films, is full of highlights and shadows, dreams and realities, love and hate. Her beauty, like her eyes, is both enchanting and dangerous, holy and **, angelic and demonic. Her story, like her characters, is unforgettable, irresistible, and incomprehensible.