Isabelle Adjani

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Isabelle Adjani (2012)

Isabelle Yasmine Adjani (born June 27, 1955 in Paris ) is a French actress .

Life

Adjani was the first child of the Algerian chauffeur Mohammed Chérif Adjani (born in Constantine † 1983) and his German wife Emma Augusta, called "Gusti" (born Schweinberger, † 2007) in the 17th arrondissement of Paris . The parents met near the end of the Second World War near Lake Constance and later moved to Paris . Isabelle grew up with her younger brother Éric Hakim († 2010), who later became a photographer, in the Paris suburb of Gennevilliers . In the neighboring Courbevoie she attended the Lycée Paul Lapie . She regularly spent her holidays at Lake Constance. Her parents' house was shaped by her German mother; The father's cultural roots, however, hardly played a role, since he wanted to raise his children as French. It wasn't until 1986 that Isabelle Adjani spoke publicly about her father's origins when she spoke out against increasing racism in France.

Adjani has two sons, Barnabé Said (* 1979) from the relationship with the cameraman and director Bruno Nuytten , and Gabriel Kane (* April 9, 1995) from the relationship with the actor Daniel Day-Lewis . Her second son uses the pseudonym "Gabe Day" as a hip-hop musician. She was dating Day-Lewis from 1989 to 1994.

Adjani broke an engagement with the musician Jean Michel Jarre in 2004 and separated from the surgeon Stéphane Delajoux in 2010. She is single.

Acting career

Although Adjani gained her first acting experience in movies, she first became known as a stage actress.

Theater career

Adjani achieved her breakthrough in 1972 in Bernarda Alba's house of Federico García Lorca under the direction of Robert Hossein at a theater in Reims , after which she was accepted into the Comédie-Française and for her interpretations of the Ondine in Jean Giraudoux's Ondine and the Agnès in Molières The school of women became known. Both plays were later filmed with her (as well as Molière's The Miser ) as television plays, so that Adjani was considered a stage actress in the first few years. However, this perception changed rapidly with her screen career.

In 2001 and 2007, Adjani was nominated for the title roles in Alexandre Dumas ' Die Kamelliendame (French original title: La Dame aux camélias ) and Wolfgang Hildesheimer's Mary Stuart for the French Theater Prize Molière for Best Actress .

Screen career

Adjani's film career began with the children's comedy Le Petit Bougnat by Bernard Toublanc-Michel, produced in 1969 and released in 1970 . But it was only François Truffaut's 1975 film The Story of Adèle H. , in which she played Victor Hugo's daughter , that marked her breakthrough as a big screen star. For the role of Adèle, she received the Acting Award of the National Board of Review and her first César and Oscar nominations in the USA . At the time, she was the youngest actress ever to be nominated for an Academy Award for Best Actress ; to this day she is the third youngest after Keisha Castle-Hughes from New Zealand and Quvenzhané Wallis from America.

After Adjani became known to an international audience with Die Geschichte der Adèle H. , she worked with a number of renowned directors of European film:

First she played under Roman Polański in the thriller The Tenant (1976) the role of a woman who tries to stabilize the mentally confused main character of the film (played by Polański himself). The flamboyant woman, acting on the verge of madness, portrayed by Adjani in both The Story of Adèle H. and The Tenant , became her prime role. Adjani herself attributed her affinity for such characters to her own character traits, especially her lively temperament.

The second César Award nomination for the role of Laure in André Téchiné's political thriller Barocco followed by the first Hollywood -Pulley in the thriller Driver (1978) on the side of Ryan O'Neal . In 1979 she shot in Germany under the direction of Werner Herzog with Klaus Kinski Nosferatu - Phantom of the Night , before she again played one of the leading roles under Téchiné's guidance in a semi-fictional story about the Brontë siblings (the middle of the three sisters, Emily Brontë ) . While filming, she met the cameraman Bruno Nuytten, who became the father of her first child. The film represented France at the 1979 Cannes Film Festival .

After Adjani's first baby break, her career was initially sluggish. Some of her films were only noticed by a small audience, but Possession brought her the first César for "Best Female Leading Role" in 1981. A year earlier the rate was already at the Film Festival in Cannes the Best Actor Award received and against such prestigious colleagues such as Anouk Aimée (The Tragedy of a Ridiculous Man) , Nicole Garcia ( every man shall receive his reward ... ) and Isabelle Huppert ( Heaven's Gate ) enforced . This made Adjani one of the most famous actresses in Europe. In 1982 she shot her two most popular films in Europe, Claude Miller's Das Auge and Jean Becker's A Murderous Summer , for which she received her second César as best actress.

At this renewed high point in her career, Adjani paused two years before returning to the screen in Luc Besson's Subway (1985) alongside Christopher Lambert . Unlike Besson's later films, this received only moderate reviews; Excepted from this was Adjani's acting performance, which was honored with her fifth César nomination. She was the narrator in Agnès Vardas T'as de beaux escaliers tu sais , a three-minute film to mark the 50th anniversary of the Cinémathèque française , and her association with Bruno Nuytten led her to another success in 1988 - again in a semi-documentary drama: An der She plays the side of Gérard Depardieu in the film of the same name Camille Claudel , the highly talented but unhappy lover of the sculptor Auguste Rodin . After The Story of Adèle H. and A Murderous Summer , this is the third film in which Adjani embodies a tragic female figure who becomes so caught up in her fate that she ends up in a sanatorium. For her expressive portrayal, Adjani received a César and an Oscar nomination, as well as a Silver Bear in Berlin - and in 1990, together with Depardieu, the Super César for the two actors of the decade . From then on film historians saw her undisputedly at the top of the French “cinema nobility”.

Adjani at the Berlinale 2010

After a four-year break on the screen and the commercial failure of Toxic Affair , a new highlight followed in 1994: for her portrayal of the title character in Patrice Chéreau's historical drama La Reine Margot (1994, German title: The Bartholomew Night ), she received hers, now hailed as "timelessly beautiful" fourth César. Two years later she returned to Hollywood in the remake of Henri-Georges Clouzot's The Devilish , Jeremiah S. Chechik's Diabolical (1996, opposite Sharon Stone ); however, the film's success did not match that of the French original.

After that Adjani was only seen sporadically in film, television or theater roles. She was mainly dedicated to family life ("My family was always [...] my absolute priority")

Only six years after Diabolisch did she appear again in a film: in the lead role in Laetitia Masson's La Repentie (2002). But neither with this crime drama nor with smaller roles such as in Jean-Paul Rappeneau's spy film Bon voyage or the critically acclaimed literary adaptation Monsieur Ibrahim and the Flowers of the Koran (both 2003), she was able to build on earlier successes.

After another five-year hiatus, Adjani took on two television roles in 2008: in Jacques Weber's historical film Figaro , she plays alongside Weber and Denis Podalydès , and in Jean-Paul Lilienfeld's socially critical drama Today I Wear Rock! she slips into the role of a teacher who is overwhelmed by everyday life in a suburban school, which is mainly attended by immigrant children, and who therefore resorts to violent means to gain respect. The role of Sonia Bergerac earned her a lot of critical acclaim in France. The daily Le Monde highlighted Adjani's powerful game and her versatile facial expressions, while Le Figaro described her presence as “stunning” and “amazing”. 2010 took it for Today I wear a skirt! the Prix ​​Lumières , the Étoile d'Or and again the César as best leading actress. This makes her the only actress to date to have won the César for best leading actress five times .

Chansons

A number of musical contributions grew out of her cooperation with Serge Gainsbourg . The most famous of these is the single Pull Marine , released in 1983 and videoed by Luc Besson , which rose to number 1 in the French charts.

Political activity

Although Adjani has long been known to be difficult to access outside of her artistic engagement, she is occasionally politically active. In 1986 she was the target of a campaign by the Front National after attacking its policies on the grounds of her Algerian ancestry. In 2003, she became one of the best-known signers of a petition calling for a ban on wearing a hijab in French educational institutions.

Anecdotal

In 1987 Adjani fell victim to a widely publicized rumor that she had AIDS or was already dead. She put an end to this rumor herself by appearing on a well-known French news magazine, only to say that she "wanted to reassure the public"; she then left the show, not without kissing the presenter on the cheek.

Filmography

Discography

Chart positions
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Singles
Pull marine
  FR 39 11/03/1984 (2 weeks)

music

Singles

  • Pull marine (1983, Philips)
  • Ohio (1984, Philips)

Albums

Radio plays

  • Le journal d'Alice James read by Isabelle Adjani. Paris: Editions des Femmes; Ville St-Laurent, Québec: Diffusion du Mont-Royal, 1985.

Awards

documentary

  • Isabelle Adjani - up close. (OT: Isabelle Adjani - 2 ou 3 choses qu'on ne sait pas d'elle… ) Documentary, France, 2010, 69 min. , Script and director: Frank Dalmat, production: arte France, Isia Films, Puzzle Media, German First broadcast: May 5, 2013 by arte, table of contents by arte.

literature

  • Isabelle Adjani: Isabelle Adjani. In: Jean-Luc Douin (ed.): Comédiennes aujourd'hui: au micro et sous le regard. Lherminier, Paris 1980, ISBN 2-86244-020-5 .
  • Guy Austin: Foreign bodies: Jean Seberg and Isabelle Adjani. In: ders .: Stars in Modern French Film. Arnold, London 2003, ISBN 0-340-76019-2 , pp. 91-106.
  • Guy Austin: 'Telling the truth can be a dangerous business': Isabelle Adjani, race and stardom. In: Stephanie Dennison and Song Hwee Lim (eds.): Remapping World Cinema: Identity, Culture and Politics in Film. Wallflower Press, London 2006, ISBN 1-904764-62-2 , pp. 129-134.
  • Halberstadt, Michèle: Adjani aux pieds nus - Journal de La repentie. Éditions Calmann-Lévy , Paris 2002, ISBN 2-7021-3293-6 .
  • Christian Roques-Briscard: La passion d'Adjani. Favre, Lausanne et al. 1987, ISBN 2-8289-0279-X .
  • Meinolf Zurhorst : Isabelle Adjani. Your films - your life . (= Heyne Film and TV Library. Volume 163). Heyne, Munich 1992, ISBN 3-453-05238-2 .

Web links

Commons : Isabelle Adjani  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Guy Austin, Wendy Michallat: Stars of French Film: Isabelle Adjani. Department of French Studies, University of Sheffield 2001. ( frenchfilmstars.dept.shef.ac.uk ( August 25, 2011 memento on WebCite ))
  2. ↑ An angel who swims in tears. In: Spiegel online. January 9, 1989.
  3. ↑ a b IMDb: Short biography Adjanis
  4. ↑ Isabelle Adjani demands 150,000 euros from ex-lover. In: The world. January 22, 2010.
  5. ↑ a b Short biography of Adjanis at the BiFi
  6. ↑ Isabelle Adjani: Isabelle Adjani. In: Jean-Luc Douin (ed.): Comédiennes aujourd'hui: au micro et sous le regard. Lherminier, Paris 1980.
  7. ^ A b Sheila Johnston: The fatal attraction of Isabelle A. In: The Independent. January 5, 1995, p. 24.
  8. ↑ Ambassade de France en République Fédérale d'Allemagne: L'histoire d'Adèle H. 2003, p. 14. ( Kultur-frankreich.de ( Memento of October 10, 2006 in the Internet Archive ); PDF file; 326 kB)
  9. ↑ Biography 1955–1981
  10. ↑ Short biography in the Lebanese research network Catrage ( Memento from October 11, 2007 in the Internet Archive )
  11. ↑ z. B. Tim Pulleine: Lark de Triomphe. In: The Guardian. September 15, 1985, p. 20.
    Janet Maslin: The Screen: 'Subway'. In: New York Times. November 6, 1985, p. 23.
  12. ↑ T'as de beaux escaliers tu sais. In: Ciné-tamaris. Retrieved on April 15, 2019 (French): "Translated" You know, you have beautiful stairs "and refers to the stairs to the Cinémathèque française, which was then located in the Palais de Chaillot ."
  13. ↑ Guy Austin: The Amateur Actors of Cannes 1999: A Shock to the (Star) System. In: French Cultural Studies. 15 (3), 1999, pp. 251-263, 258.
  14. ↑ a b Ginette Vincendeau: The Companion to French Cinema. Cassell, London 1996, p. 15.
  15. ^ Rémi Fournier Lanzoni: French Cinema: From Its Beginnings to the Present. continuum, New York 2002, p. 384.
  16. ^ Isabelle Adjani "Je ne suis pas ma première fan". - Interview with Clémentine Naudet in Le Vif / L'Express, February 13, 2009, p. 78.
  17. ↑ Séry, Macha: mixité Egalite Laïcité. In: Le Monde . March 15, 2009, Le Monde Télévision, p. 6.
  18. ↑ Isabelle Nataf: Isabelle Adjani, sublime preneuse d'otages. In: Le Figaro . Edition 20105, March 20, 2009, p. 19.
  19. ↑ Pull Marine video clip, accessed November 28, 2012.
  20. ^ John Henley: Something aggressive about veils, says Chirac. In: The Guardian. December 6, 2003 ( Text of the petition (French) )
  21. ↑ Emmanuelle Alfonsi: Le Cas Adjani: autopsie médiatique d'une rumeur Diploma thesis ( Diplôme d'Etudes Supérieures Spécialisées ): Université Paris 1 - Panthéon - Sorbonne, Faculty of Political Communication and Sociology, 1987. (sudoc.abes.fr)
  22. ^ A b Film star Adjani goes on French TV to dispel health rumors , St. Petersburg Times , January 20, 1987, p. 3A.
  23. ↑ Chart sources: FR
personal data
SURNAME Adjani, Isabelle
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Adjani, Isabelle Yasmine (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION french actress
DATE OF BIRTH June 27, 1955
PLACE OF BIRTH Paris