Adolphe
Synopsis
Adolphe, 24, an aimless young man, decides to seduce Elléonore, a beautiful woman ten years older than himself, and a lot more vulnerable.
Elléonore gives into him, and gives up everything for him, but Adolphe’s love is already waning. And yet, he can’t stand the idea of making her suffer.
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- Executive Producer : ARP Sélection
- Co-production : France 3 Cinéma
- French distribution : ARP Sélection
Full credits (21)
- Executive Producers : Michèle Halberstadt, Laurent Pétin
- Screenwriters : Benoit Jacquot, Fabrice Roger-Lacan
- Director of Photography : Benoît Delhomme
- Assistant directors : Raphaël Chevènement, Mathilde Cukierman
- Editor : Luc Barnier
- Sound Recordist : Jean-Claude Laureux
- Costume designer : Catherine Bouchard
- Author of original work : Benjamin Constant
- Sound Assistant : Nicolas Cantin
- Assistant Operator : Pierre-Hugues Galien
- Production Manager : Daniel Baschieri
- Press Attaché (film) : Matilde Incerti
- Sound editors : Olivier Goinard, Jean-Claude Laureux
- Assistant editors : Bérengère Saint-Bezar, Julia Grégory
- Continuity supervisor : Geneviève Dufour
- Production Designer : Katia Wyszkop
- Casting : Frédérique Moidon
- Choreographer : Corinne Devaux
- Sales Agent : Jacques Le Glou
- Sound Mixer : Dominique Gaborieau
- Still Photographer : Jérôme Prebois
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- Type : Feature film
- Genres : Fiction
- Sub-genre : Literary adaptation , Drama
- Production language : French
- Production country : France
- Original French-language productions : Unspecified
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Adolphe by Benoît Jacquot (France, 2002, 102 min.). Based on Benjamin Constant’s renowned 19th-century novel, Adolphe sees Benoît Jacquot focusing his cool, distanced eye on an affair of impassioned amour fou. At a party, a fickle young rake named Adolphe (Stanislas Merhar) spies a vulnerable widow and determines to have her for himself. It’s not long before the impressionable Elléonore (Isabelle Adjani) finds herself unable to resist the advances of her would-be suitor, and the two embark on an affair—which Adolphe later decides to end just as suddenly. What follows is the fallout of an obsessive relationship. Jacquot manages to invest the tale with a sensibility that is forceful without being maudlin. This results in scenes of shattering emotive power, where surface beauty cannot conceal the intensity of the feelings depicted.
