Isabelle Adjani

I sorta agree with that...she played with youth the way too much..
 
I love her as an actress, she was brilliant in those films I've seen her in. But I wish she had skipped the plastic surgeries. :( But she was indeed STUNNING!
 
She is one of the most beautiful women i have ever seen,breathtaking.And i LOVE The Queen Margot movie,in the end when she is in the carriage saying those lines with a close up of her face,its sooo amazing. :wub: But i personaly think that her immense beauty is not ever captured well in photographs,its never as endearing as on the big screen,which is so weird but i guess you cant have it all.....
 
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Some of her Paris Vogue covers:

November 1988

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June/July 1994
Isabelle Adjani photographed by Paolo Roversi

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March 1993
Isabelle Adjani photographed by Dominique Issermann

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And a cute one with Goude;
December 1989

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Thanks for posting those covers, Miss Dalloway
The link for Jean-Paul Goude's thread (I had used the same image to start his thread^_^)

“Figaro”, broadcasted on France channel 3, february, 7th .
The story:
Sevilla, 1766: The count Almaviva , repentant Don Juan, fall in love of Rosine,a young girl who live under guardianship of the old doctor Bartholo. With the help of Figaro, his servant, the count charm Rosine, elope and marry her. Three years later, the count of Almaviva has become again the libertine he used to be. He desert his wife , and wish to have his “droit du seigneur” on Suzanne, chambermaid of the countess, engaged with Figaro and going to marry him this day. It follows to-ings and fro-ing and a mad day that will put all the hearts and feelings to the test .

How his reunion with TV did happened ? Was it Dominique Besnehard who thought to you?
I.A.: It is a double reunion. With TV and with Jacques Weber. Indeed, it seems that Dominique Besnehard has been the initiator: “But why don’t you speak of “Figaro” to Isabelle? I know she likes your work as a director very much.” And Jacques who is a very shy and modest person had said: “But she will never do it”. It is a kind of fantasy that has grown up, that I’m inaccessible. We all have our cross to bear, even a gilded one. Jacques Weber showed me his adaptation and I thought it was exquisite and talented one. It was difficult because it is a trilogy. It was a remarkable result. Jacques is an erudite man who knows well the XVIII century. I knew he wanted to make something modern and beautiful .Make a movie for TV did not meant to do something fusty, classically classical. He took of everything which is quibbling in this Beaumarchais’s work, without making dull his brilliant wit. He added a touch of lightness and a Mozartian grace to the directing. With no wrong note. We played together the same work and we heard the same fluid language about relations between men and women, marriage, faithfulness, love, or social inequalities.

Did the fact of working for TV made you hesitate?
I.A.: Not at all. TV had a major role in my career. The first time I played Agnès in “l’école des femmes” with Bernard Blier as Arnolphe , it was a theater specifically thought up for TV with a directing of Raymond Rouleau. Without broadcasting that play , I should not have played “the story of Adèle H”. François Truffaut discovered me on TV . He had told me:” It is the first time I cry looking at TV”. It has changed my life, because at this time Pierre Duc, the director of the “Comedie Française”, did not allowed me to leave for shooting, then I chose to leave the “ Comedie Française”… For me, the adaptation of a classical work at TV is quite a tradition. Many people have noticed me on TV, not at theater. One always give more nobleness to a movie because it has been all around the world. I am not biased against “small screen”. Everything is in the quality of the result, which is not certainly not sure, neverhteless I had faith in Jacques Weber.

Do you know Jacques Weber for a long time?
Yes, since his ending competitive examination at the Conservatoire. He was one of the most brilliant with Francis Huster. At this time I was 15th and an half. It was the beginning of the beginning. Trembling, I had come to see this examination.

You had already played together in “Faustine ou le bel été”, the Nina Companeez’s movie in 1972?
I.A.: I adore the lyricism of Nina Companeez of whom I don’t have already have seen the TV serie “the storm is coming” (actually broadcasted on france 2). I fell in love with the Cyrano de Bergerac adapted by Jacques Weber played by Mariana Hands and Xavier Gallais at the MC 93 of Bobigny. With my help, Patrice Chéreau discovered Marina Hands and engaged her to play Aricie in Phèdre.

Did you know Denis Podalydès who plays Figaro?
I.A.: I’m a great fan! His book “ Scènes of the life of an actor”, is a small Bible for me. I should like to be directed by him.

What personal touch do you add to the character of the countess?
I.A.: The countess is a sensual character, It is a deserted wife, who live in the heath of summer. She has a kind of languor, she has nothing to wait for except when Chérubin appears as a possible love affair. Because of the passiveness of the character, I could follow the energy of Denis Podalydès and the rhythm of the text. I was actress and spectator at the same time. I like to admire the actors when they have to be.

How Jacques Weber is directing actors?
Before all, Jacques is an actor, he like us to be inventive. We had the possibility not to known completely how he was going to shoot. Pialat and Bergman were his Gods. I remember an Antonioni sentence. For him “directing, was like having a dream awaken”. It is important to let some freedom. Jacques Weber could shoot a cinema movie, but he would not dare, he is too modest.

Celine Salette is fantastic as playing Suzanne.
I.A.: Yes, she is remarkable, she is a young woman whom play and physical are very modern. She is lovely, and played Suzanne as a wild cat. And Stanley Weber, what a revelation!

Two years ago, you almost played the resistance fighter Marie Madeleine Fourcade, for TF1 but the project did not succeeded
I.A.: Takis Candilis( fiction director for TF1) did not succeed to convince the legal successors.I wish to co-produce it for cinema.

What are your projects?
I.A.: In May, I will play for Arte “A day at junior high school” (provisional title) in a suburb junior high school., and directed by Jean-Paul Lilienfeld. I play a teacher who takes pupils hostage. In April, I will be directed by Anthony Minghella in “New-Yok, I love you” after “Paris, je t’aime”. I also have a project with Maurice Dugowson inspired by a biography of Marylin. An other one entitled “Forfait Caribou”, by Isabelle Mergault, about tragic comic stories of couples. No project at theatre for the moment. When I do it, it becomes the most important thing of my life…
When I was young, I thought I will stop early. Today, I’ m not satisfied, therefore I have to continue. It is a difficult job, nowadays one also have to be an image.
A career doesn’t only depend on talent. I always took time for my “essential”, today my son Gabriel-Kane. He has great fluency in art. He would like me to play the mother of “le petit Nicolas”. He saw me in “Le petit bougnat”, Bernard Toublanc-Michel’s movie. I have the feeling that with this movie, I will avoid the relationship problems.
( Translation from le Figaro.fr, photos: leblogtvnews.com/lefigaro.fr-Jean-Michel Marion-GMT production)
 

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I am sorry to disagree with the fans, but I think Isabelle Adjani is one of the actresses that has aged the least gracefully. She has never accepted aging and started cosmetic treatments so early in her career that it ruined it and she pretty much started getting roles where she parodied herself. An article in (I think) ta 1995 American Vogue already mentioned that at 40, she insisted on continuing playing ingenues. If you compare her career to that of her contemporary Isabelle Huppert, you can really see the difference. Have you ever seen Isabelle Adjani with one single wrinkle, one small furrow between her eyebrows ? Her face has become completely expressionless. It was pitiful reading a recent interview in which she complained that no "creative" director would dare approach her and give her a challenging role because she had been put on a pedestal and they were too intimidated and she wanted to work more. Well, they flock to Isabelle Huppert, Nathalie Baye, and others, for those types of roles. Isabelle Adjani is caught in a time warp where she thinks looks are everything, sort of 40's studio style. What a waste of talent ! She could have been a writer too, she has a unique way with words, always has had, even in her teens. They say it's from her familiarity with psychoanalysis, and I keep her quotes because they are so original. I wish I had started collecting her interviews from the beginning.

when did she start with the plastic surgery

ive heard and read from several sources that she is a complete nutjob
 
she looked so bad in figaro. her face is completely frozen.it's ridiculous how much they photoshopped her on the stills and tv guide. she couldn't move her face on the screen. ***EDIT*** it's sad she should have stayed natural. she looks like an old creepy doll.
 
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^so true she was awful acting and face put together!!!! that why I think we should have put her on the "Icons from the past" thread that the way I see her.
 
Even if you do not agree with me this is the way I see her.......-_- and I think a lot of people of my age see her that way. You don't have to be dead to be an "icon from the past" for me Jane Birkin and Françoise Hardy are both great "Icons from the past" and as far as I know they are still working.
:angry: I was so angry when I saw what she has done to her face when I saw her on tv the other day. She looks awful:sick:.
Anyway I still love her, for her past style so I'm posting some great old pics of her, even if I like some of her recent pics like those that I've post above.
and thanks for your pics:flower:

L'egoïste magazine November 1989. by Richard Avedon.

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source:Aleksandria@FD
 
Isabelle Adjani and Vladimir Koshevoi by Jean-Daniel Lorieux in The Master and Margarita Project
I'm going to post an extensive collection of pics from the project gathered from various sources like:
blogisabelleadjani.blogspot.com
lajasette.over-blog.com
screencapped by me from
youtube.com/watch?v=XzmgShdPpLs
so that not no repeat myself in every post



 

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