Isabelle ajani

Isabelle Yasmina Adjani (Paris, June 27, 1955) is an award-winning French actress. She is considered by both critics and the public as one of the greatest interpreters of French cinema, European cinema and cinema history.

She made her film debut at the age of 14 with Le Petit Bougnat in 1970 and then made a successful incursion into the Comédie-Française with the works School for Women by 1972 and Ondine in 1974. In 1975, thanks to her acclaimed impersonation of Adèle Hugo in the film Intimate Diary of Adele H., she received her first Oscar nomination for Best actress at the age of 19, establishing herself as the youngest woman to be nominated at that time, a record she held for nearly three decades. In 1981 she was recognized as best performer at the Cannes Film Festival for the films Possession and Quartet and in 1989 he received the Silver Bear at the Berlin International Film Festival for his highly praised performance in The Passion of Camille Claudel, a film that also earned her a second Oscar nomination, becoming the first French actress to receive up to two nominations for the highest award in the seventh art.

She is recognized for the dramatic intensity of her performances and for her ability to interpret neurotic, fragile, mysterious, disturbed, insane or even mentally unstable women. Likewise, she is the actress with the most César awards in history, recognitions he got for the tapes: Possession 1982, Summer Killer 1984, The Passion of Camille Claudel 1989, La reine Margot of 1995 and La journée de la jupe of 2010. She was decorated with the Legion of Honor in the degree of "Commander" in 2010 and with the National Order of Merit in the degree of " Caballero» in 2014. Other important films in his filmography are: The Tenant from 1976, Nosferatu, Vampire of the Night from 1979, Subway from 1985, Diabolique from 1996 and Sous les jupes des filles from 2014.

Since the early 1970s she was nicknamed "La Sublime".

Youth

Isabelle Yasmina Adjani was born on June 27, 1955 in the 17th arrondissement of Paris, the daughter of an Algerian-Cabyle father named Mohammed Cherif Adjani, and a Catholic German mother of Bavarian origin, named Emma Augusta "Gusti" Schweinberger, who gave her he taught German from early childhood. Gusti met Adjani's father near the end of World War II, when he was in the French army. They got married and she traveled to Paris with him without mastering the language.

Isabelle grew up in Gennevilliers as bilingual, speaking fluent French and German. She stated that her parents used their ethnic and cultural differences during their fights to insult each other. After winning a recital at her college, she began participating in amateur theater at the age of 12. She successfully completed her baccalaureate and attended the Université de Vincennes beginning in 1976.

Her younger brother, Éric, was a photographer who died on Christmas Day 2010 at age 53.

Trajectory

In 1969 while he was attending the Alfred de Vigny high school (and thinking of studying Psychology in the future after finishing his school studies), he received a proposal from the director Bernard Toublanc-Michel; thus she made her film debut at the age of fourteen with Claude Amazan in the film Le petit bougnat. play Escuela de mujeres with the role of Agnés. She soon left the company to pursue a career in movies.

After playing minor roles in several films, she achieved modest success with 1974's La Gifle, a film that director François Truffaut saw and prompted him to audition her for his next film Diary Intimate Adèle H. from 1975, which she had finished writing five years earlier.

Adjani at the Cannes Film Festival in 2009.

Her performance as Adèle Hugo, daughter of Victor Hugo, was described as "prodigious" and at only 19 years old she received an Oscar nomination for best actress, becoming the youngest performer to opt for the highest award in the seventh art. The film awarded her with a David de Donatello, an India Catalina and recognition from the National Society of Film Critics and the National Council of Film Critics of the United States, among others. Due to her success, director François Truffaut would comment: "France is too small for her. Isabelle was made for American cinema."

After that he began receiving offers from Hollywood, the first of which was The Other Side of Midnight by director Charles Jarrott, but he dismissed the idea declaring Hollywood a "fictional city", saying: “I am not American. I didn't grow up with that desire to win an award." In 1978 she agreed to film Driver: The Challenge , a film by director Walter Hill as she was a fan of his previous film Hard Times . She stated:

I think he's wonderful, very with the tradition of Howard Hawks, sober and austere. History is contemporary but also very stylized, and the roles that Ryan [O'Neal] and I interpret are like [Humphrey] Bogart and [Lauren] Bacall. We are both betting from our souls and do not show our emotions or say them. For us, speaking is worthless. I'm really a mystery girl in this movie, with no name or past. And I must say that it is a repairer not to have a life after me; in this way, I do not have to dig deeply to do my part. All I know is that my life is the game and I'm a loser. I have what people would call a "disturbable robe."

Driver: The Challenge had more than a million viewers in France but did not have the same luck in the United States. In 1976 he worked with Roman Polański in the film Le locataire which had bad reviews, and in 1979 he shot Nosferatu, ghost of the night by director Werner Herzog. Adjani's presence in the latter was described by the renowned film critic Roger Ebert as a « masterful touch", praising the film in every way and describing her performance as follows: "[her presence] here is not only because of her perfect face, but because of her curious ability to appear real from an ethereal plane." Nosferatu was filmed in English and German at the same time at the request of distributor 20th Century Fox and has since become one of the greatest horror films of all time.

Adjani at the Caesar Awards ceremony in 2010.

In 1981 she was recognized as best actress during the Cannes Film Festival for her films Quartet by director James Ivory and for Possession by director Andrzej Żuławski. The latter, a horror film in which she plays a double role, one of them a woman with a severe nervous breakdown due to the influence of an evil entity, earned her critical applause and made her a recurring face in the genre. horror and suspense. Adjani won her first Cesar for her performance. She would win it again the following year for the drama Killer Summer, in which she portrays a typical French woman out for revenge.

The same year he ventured into music for the first and only time with his album Pull Marine, written and produced by lyricist Serge Gainsbourg. The eponymous song had its own music video that was directed by Luc Besson. In 1985, and under the direction of the same director, she shot the drama Subway , a film that featured "her own style and visual energy" according to The New York Times . His efforts to carve out an outstanding career in America were frustrated with his next film Ishtar in 1987, starring established actors such as Warren Beatty and Dustin Hoffman but considered since its premiere as one of the worst. film history of cinema.

After the failure of Ishtar, Adjani produced his next film The Passion of Camille Claudel in 1989, a drama inspired by the life and work of the French sculptress of the same name. name and which was directed by his former partner, director Bruno Nuytten. The film was both a critical and box office success and returned Adjani to stardom, awarding her with her third César Award and giving her her second Oscar nomination, 14 years after being first considered and becoming the first French actress. to receive up to two nominations in history. The Passion of Camille Claude was also nominated for an Oscar for Best Foreign Language Film. Following this recognition, the actress was chosen by People magazine as one of "the 50 most beautiful people in the world".

Starting in the 1990s, she became more selective in choosing her roles, and her appearances in movies dropped markedly compared to the previous decade. In 1994 she achieved her fourth César by starring in Queen Margot by director Patrice Chéreau, a film based on the homonymous novel by Alexandre Dumas and inspired by Margaret of Valois. In 1996 she ventured back into Hollywood with the film Las diabolicas , by director Jeremiah Chechik. The film was a box office flop and was received negatively by critics. It would be her last film in America to date. In 1997 she chaired the jury during the fiftieth -50th edition of the Cannes Film Festival.

Between 2000 and 2010, he recorded seven films, the most notable being: Adolphe from 2001, Mr. Ibrahim and the Flowers of the Koran from 2003, La journée de la jupe in 2008 and Mammuth in 2010. For La journée de la jupe, a drama in which she plays a school teacher who takes her holding students hostage to promote the use of the skirt in a Muslim school, Adjani won her fifth César for best actress, 14 years after her fourth victory and thus, becoming the actress with the most César awards in history. the Legion of Honor with the degree of "Commander" in 2010 and with the National Order of Merit with the degree of "Knight" four years later.

In 2011 she was proclaimed by the Los Angeles Times as "the most beautiful woman in cinema", in 2013 she ventured into Bollywood for the first time with a supporting role in the film Ishkq in Paris and in 2014 he returned to the theater with the play Kinship, co-starring actress Carmen Maura.

Personal life

Adjani at the Berlin Film Festival in 2010.

Personal relationships

In 1979, she had a son, Barnabé Saïd-Nuytten, with cinematographer Bruno Nuytten, whom she later hired to direct her project Camille Claudel.

From 1989 to 1995, she was in a relationship with Daniel Day-Lewis, who was not around for the birth of their common son, Gabriel-Kane Day-Lewis, in 1995.

Adjani was engaged to Jean-Michel Jarre; they broke up in 2004.

His fame

Based on the success of L'école des femmes (1973) and the passion with which the actress gave herself in this work by Molière in the role of Agnès, someone uttered a phrase that soon became popular and says almost everything about her: "An Isabelle Adjani is born only once every hundred years".

Because of his talent, he became a myth. According to Jacques Séguéla, she was the emblematic figure of cinema in the eighties -as was Brigitte Bardot in the sixties and Catherine Deneuve in the seventies- and as one of the "key actresses" in French cinema, European cinema and ―in hindsight― also in film history, due to "her sublime acting versatility, the incredible passion she puts into her characters, her cold and mysterious aura, her fragile porcelain doll image in contrast to her crazed characters, his fierce look and his sometimes captivating, others dark, hysterical or sensual voice ». Perhaps because of all that she is surrounded by, the French press nicknamed her "the Adjani mystery."

Controversy

Not only has she earned great admiration for her way of acting, she has also generated controversy around her; above all because of the immense curiosity of the media about her intimate life kept by the actress under great secrecy, she is one of the actresses who during her career has been constantly harassed and yet everything about the private life of her is unknown. she. It has been said from strange things like that she "had made a pact with the Devil since finishing her forties and passing fifty she only looked like a girl in her twenties"; to more objective things such as their fascinating responses to journalists, the public recitation of Salman Rushdie's The Satanic Verses the same year they were sentenced by Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini or their statements against racism (what which caused the rumor in 1986, spread by radical right-wing groups, that he had died of AIDS). There is also controversy about how much and in what way various actresses have imitated her style or have been influenced by her way of acting, be it openly or covertly.

Filmography

Theater

Isabelle Adjani joined the Comédie-Française in 1972 as a boarder without having gone through the mandatory National Conservatory of Dramatic Art, and stayed there for almost three years.

At the Comédie-Française

• 1972: Le Bourgeois gentilhomme by Jean-Louis Barrault - Lucile
• 1973: L'Avare by Jean-Paul Roussillon - Mariane
• 1973: The School of Women by Jean-Paul Roussillon - Agnès
• 1973: Port-Royal of Henry de Montherlant, led by Jean Meyer - Sister Marie-Françoise de l'Eucharistie
• 1974: Ondine by Jean Giraudoux, directed by Raymond Rouleau - Ondine
• 1974: The House of Bernarda Alba by Federico García Lorca, directed by Robert Hossein (presented at the National Theatre of the Odeon) - Adela

Outside the Comédie-Française

• 1972: The House of Bernarda Alba by Federico García Lorca, directed by Robert Hossein, Casa de Cultura de Reims - Adela
• 1983: Mademoiselle Julie of August Strindberg, led by Jean-Paul Roussillon - Julie
• 2000: Give it to me. by Alexandre Dumas and René de Ceccatty, directed by Alfredo Arias, Théâtre Marigny, Paris - Marguerite Gautier
• 2006: Last night for Marie Stuart by Wolfgang Hildesheimer, directed by Didier Long Théâtre Marigny, Paris - Marie Stuart
• 2014-2015: Parentesco de Carey Perloff, directed by Dominique Borg, Théâtre de Paris - Elle
• 2017: Love and forests by Eric Reinhardt, directed by Laurent Bazin, creation Le Quai à Angers, tour - Voices of the author and several characters
• 2019 - 2020: Opening Nightaccording to the script of John Cassavetes, directed by Cyril Teste, Namur Theatre
• Angers North Bouffes Theatre - Paris, tour in France and abroad (New York, Rome, Hong Kong) - actress

Discography

• 1970: Le Petit Bougnat, melody of the final part of the film Le Petit Bougnat
• 1974: Rocking ChairEasy. TV show Maritie et Gilbert Carpentier[1]
• Je ne peux plus dire je t'aime, simple(1979); Isabelle Adjani & Jacques Higelin
• Journal of Alice James (1983) Reading of the Journal Alice James
• Pull Marine, Cd (1983, Philips) produced and written by Serge Gainsbourg

Singles Pull Marine:

• Ohio, 45 tours: [2]
• Beau Comme Bowie, 45 tours: [3]
• Pull Marine, 45 tours (located position 1 in the ranking of France): [4]

Other Dance Songs Pull Marine:

• Ok pour plus jamais, 45 tours: [5]
• D'un taxiphone, 45 tours: [6]
• Le bonheur c'est malheureux]], 45 tours: [7]

• Love or Leave Me, Sencillo (1984) Show TF1 October 5, 1984
• Rupture au Miroir, Sencillo (1984) Isabelle Adjani & Jane Birkin; au cours de l'émission Formule 1, on 30 November 1984
• Princesse au Petit Pois, Sencillo (1986): [8]
• Léon dit, Sencillo 2 (1986).
• Bon Voyage, Sencillo (2003).
• On ne sert à rien (2004), Pascal Bishop, Isabelle Adjani " Rei Shibata; Song extracted from the Cd: Ensemble Contre Le Sida - 10 Ans Ensemble (Together against AIDS-10 years together).

Awards and nominations