Why is Isabelle Adjani so beloved by the Cesars?

Because she is more beloved.

Next.

The strangest thing is that the Cesars are supposedly the film industry awards of France, voted for by working industry professionals, just like the Oscars. Any French person who pays any attention to the showbiz will tell you that Adjani has a terrible reputation in the industry. That's why she has such a thin resume compared to her peers, and pretty much stopped getting any work after turning 40, in a country where age is simply not an issue for actresses.

Everyone wanted to fuck a woman like Adjani.

Because she's crazy and sexy. Unbeatable combination.

She’s very wild, very French. She is their [italic]Liberté[/italic] made flesh.

Adjani is a paradox: she is very private ( black glasses always and everywhere) but she issued an article in Paris Match breaking up publicly with Jean-Michel Jarre. She is very smart but she made some poor choices especially regarding her american career. She refused parts such as Dick Tracy, Anna Karenine, 9 1/2 weeks, fatal attraction and Indecent proposal ( Adrian Lyne and Adjani...). To define her i think the right word is (was?) unpredictable but she is very talented. She can play comedy and tragedy. She can play movie and theater parts. When she is on stage, each spectator in the theater is riveted. The Cesars are awarded by the profession and the five awards are an aknowledgment of her gift. She is 62 now and still working.

The French love their wild childs. See Depardieu.

OP, I saw her on stage. In ' Camille'. I stayed seated through 2 excrutiating hours of Total bore. I just thought she was putting on airs and was a complete show off and a phony. Then came the last fifteen minutes, when she drops her social mask, reveals herself and dies. It was completely heartbreaking. A GENIUS. I was transfixed. It was like seeing the soul of a real destitute, tragic woman. I don't know how she did it. She was so vulnerable.I was disappointed because I wanted to see La Adjani, and I had seen the character all the way, until the final fireworks. I am not a big fan, but that counts, in the 5 best performances I have ever seen on stage. And I have seen a lot of the greats from USA/UK/OZ/France and Italy

It's funny how one of France's biggest national treasures doesn't have a single drop of French blood inside her pale little body.

Being Kabyle would be another reason all French men want to fuck her. (or wanted to, back in the day)

Like most french people hon', french is a mindset. (Adjani isn't considered 'a national treasure" anymore, more like a parody, sadly. The only person who still praises her these days is Madame Tussauds)

She looks like Janine Turner, also a freak.

Ok gurls, 1) she is not' Kabyle" she 's of half german, half Algerian, perhaps from Kabylie, heritage, sources welcome. 2) she was born and bred in France, which makes her French. She was never publicized as anything else but French back in the day. Especially because she was associated with comedie-francaise and Victor Hugo, she was a perfect incarnation of the french classical beauty. 3) people weren't all crazy like today, so nobody would scrutinize her background, again, being born in France does make you french. 4) WHY in the name of fuck, ' being Kabyle' ( which, again, she isn't, being french from german and Algerian ancestry) would be another reason for straight guys to want to fuck her ????. In her heyday the name 'adjani' evoked vaguely italian ancestry for most people, and with her porcelain like complexion and ocean blue eyes, she certainly doesn't ring 'exotic'.

The great real actrice has always been Isabelle HUPPERT.

Adjani thought she was (and wanted to be) the new Greta GARBO. She only was "interesting" when she played hysterical characters : Adele H, Possession, L'été meurtrier and Camille Claudel. She is one of the smuggest french actrices and she was overrated. Nothing personal.

R14 = Isabelle Huppert

(R15) = No, just someone with a brain and personality...

I beg to disagree. Adjani was an extraordinary talent when her mental disease was under control. Huppert is a versatile and surprising actress, but very cerebral,and on stage she has nothing on Adjani. Both owe their success and longevity to their capacity of getting away with fucking producers, and pass as 'muses' instead of 'whores'much like Deneuve. Daniel Toscan du Plantier, CEO of Gaumont for Huppert, Rassam for Adjani ( wrong choice). There's a rather poetic saying in the french film industry, that if you put together end to end all the dicks that Deneuve took in her career, you can make a circle around the earth. The real ' great 'french actresses never had much access to the film industry. Madeleine Renaud, Denise Gence, Suzanne Flon, were extraordinary talents that never made it to leading lady status because of crafty whores like Deneuve, Adjani, Huppert, et all

I feel like her remake of Diabolique with Sharon Stone and Kathy Bates should be played in the homes of every Datalounger at least once a year.

Your are talking about the 30's, 40's Madeleine Renaud, Suzanne Flon and why not ARLETTY ?

Nowadays, nobody cares about Adjani (she is not bankable anymore) but Isabelle HUPPERT is still working in Chef-d'OEUVRES : LA PIANISTE, ELLE, Madame HYDE...........

Boy, was THAT bad !

Arletty WAS a film star. Until she fucked a Waffen SS officer. She famously said , during her trial ' my heart is french, but my ass is international '.

(R20) = don't loose your time watching the DIABOLIQUE 1996, the only one is DIABOLIQUE with SIMONE SIGNORET.

(R21) = and???? It's not the subject!

R17 great post. I saw Madame de... (Max Ophuls) with Danielle Darrieux, and man that is great acting. As filmmaking goes, it's a bit like Ernst Lubitsch's French cousin, except they were both German.

I had a bit of a crush on Suzanne Flon. One day I'll get to her older movies.

R8, that is so cool.

Just a week ago I went to the theatre to watch A Month in the Country by Turgeniev. It started a bit late. Turns out they were probably waiting for a few latecomers in the audience, namely Adjani herself (dark sunglasses, bright and colourful headscarf) who got seated right in front on me, two seats to my right. Even with the sunglasses on I recognised her instantly (who wouldn't?). I must say this is someone who I never expected to see in my lifetime. She was maybe six feet away and all I can say is a great emotion washed over me. I can't describe it. Yes, there is the star-struck part, but there is a vulnerability *and* star presence that she radiates, never felt anything like it. Very real and completely imagined. It was a very interesting encounter.

Saw her blue eyes when the play was over. She seemed happy to be there. When I went home I checked a few of her earlier performances and ended up watching The Brontë Sisters.

I saw her IRL 3 times. I was a guest at the 50th Cannes film festival, was seated next table during dinner, and as it happens, her personal assistant was a school friend of mine, so we chatted a bit, and Isabelle kept staring at me. It was in my modeling/acting years and I was a hot hot number. She was stunning Isabelle. Flawless. Much more beautiful than on films and tv, and the cosmetic surgery was invisible in the flesh. Her dress was atrocious though. Purple with a big bow in the front and two more on the sides. Saw her as a customer @ the Gap wearing the strangest outfit. A corduroy green poncho with a hat that looked like a gigantic green halloween 🎃. and that play. You saw that vulnerable quality. It's overwhelming. I decided never to say again a bad word against her. Fail. I saw Huppert on stage. She was really flat. Pretty to look at, intelligent, precise, and completely mondane. The play was Medea!

She'll probably score another for her new movie with Vincent Cassel. Looks awesome. She plays a glamorous mob boss.

True story: she had a passionate affair with Daniel Day Lewis ( she must be the dumbest cow to follow up Warren Beatty with DDL- a perv.) and she was pregnant when they decided to get married. So he sent her to his new house in Ireland to redecorate, meanwhile he flew to New-York to fuck Julia Roberts. And married Arthur Miller's daughter instead. So Adjani, still redecorating the stupid house, learns of his marriage through the press. She doesn't fight and calls his NYC number to offer her congratulations. A woman answers the call, and Isabelle tells her that she wishes them both the best. The woman goes 'WHAT???". Turns out it was DDL's side piece, a model, who he had forgotten to break the good news to.

R29 You have the story wrong. Daniel dumped Isabelle via fax shortly before she gave birth to his son Gabriel Kane. Yes, she later read about Daniel getting married and so, in an attempt to not show any hard feelings, she called him to congratulate him only for the call to be picked up instead by Daniel's side-piece who was clueless about Daniel having married someone else.

Daniel is pretty much Billy Bob Thornton who was engaged to Laura Dern but married Angelina Jolie on a whim. Trash.

Probably right. I am not too interested in DDL's antics. Unsurprisingly, their son is bipo

R5 Adjani's mother is German and her dad was Algerian/Turkish. German women are even wilder than French women and Adjani has a lot of that Teutonic wildness.

R9 True. She looks very German and lives in Switzerland! Not to further tweak the French here but her German is quite good!

What are the rest of your top 5, r8?

Remember One Deadly Summer? Adjani was so hot in it she would make a gay boy want to fuck her rotten. She was so sexy in that film.

R9 Deneuve is part Italian, Huppert's father's family were Ashkenazi Jews from The Austro-Hungarian Empire and Alsace(then part of Germany) and Carole Bouquet is part Italian. Marion Cotillard might be the only purely ethnically French actress on the scene.

No, Marion's mother has Kabyle ancestry.

[quote]Marion Cotillard might be the only purely ethnically French actress on the scene.

What an absurd comment! You're obviously an ignorant American who doesn't even watch French movies. If you did, you'd know France is filled with ethnically French actresses who are far more revered than Marion.

Cate Blanchett in' plenty' was amazing. Said Suzanne Flon was probably the best ever, but it was a french play, and I don't remember the title. Mark Rylance was extraordinary in everything I saw him in. Anastasia Hille in 'as you like it'. I never saw Alan Bates in a straight play but he gave a solo performance at a festival in north England that was mouth watering, so honorary mention.same with french legend Edwige Feuillere, solo act, but fascinating . Natasha Richardson in 'the lady from the sea'. Of all people, quite surprisingly Jane Birkin. These are in my short list. In a long list of stars that include frances mc dormand, ralph fiennes and his brother, helen Mirren, frances de la tour,ewan mc gregor, Huppert, Elizabeth mc govern, alan Rickman, anthony sher, john Malkovitch, daniel dafoe, fiona shaw, Vanessa Redgrave, colin firth, klaus maria brandauer, raf Vallone, and many more

Deneuve has never been italian in any previous lives. Her daughter Chiara is. Both Deneuve parents, Maurice Dorleac and renee Adoree, were as french as camembert.

R39 You sound like the typical stupid Frenchman who thinks they are much smarter than they are when they are just fucking dumb. Most Americans wouldn't know or care who these French actresses are so you show a great deal of stupidity in your assessment. It is people like you who make me embarrassed to be part French. I watch French movies all the fucking time you cottage filled cunt! I only gave Marion as an example. I can't mention every fucking French actress known to mankind. I know that tons of French people are mixed and that Beart is half Jewish and that Simone Signoret was part Jewish etc so on.

R41 No. Deneuve herself in the past has actually claimed Italian ancestry.

R42 there's a nasty frenchman in this thread for sure. Don't get upset. You sound hot. Are you hot ?

R38 Actually she is not Kabyle at all.

I thought so

[quote]You sound like the typical stupid Frenchman who thinks they are much smarter than they are

At least we didn't elect Donald Trump.

[quote]Most Americans wouldn't know or care who these French actresses are

So why are you posting on this thread?

[quote]I watch French movies all the fucking time you cottage filled cunt!

The mouth on her!

[quote]Beart is half Jewish and that Simone Signoret was part Jewish

What's with your obsession with Jews both in this thread and others?

R43 He is a nasty one. I once asked a bunch of french people where Nutella was from and they said Germany! Talk about being clueless and stupid.

I am hot. Thanks for asking.

I knew you were R47. Describe your hotness

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R46 You voted for a neo liberal stooge who is a lackey of Frau Merkel in The Fatherland. France also had a runoff with a woman(that cunt LePen) who is far more loathsome than Trump is. She is a wicked,nasty and racist woman.

You missed a point deary. I'm part French so I grew up with all these movies and French music as well. By going to France I found out how ignorant,racist ad stupid The French can be and are.

Obsession with Jews? You have that much of an OCD that you are fishing around for anything. Very bad form indeed. I have nothing against Jews and if Isabelle Huppert or Beart wanted to fuck me in their height of their beauty , Iwould go straight for them.

R49 The French collaborated with The Germans during WW II and they believed in racial purity. Just ask Marine LePen's dad, the Neo Nazi, who started The National Front. such a party would be laughed at in The US. No one here said anything about racial purity at all. The rancid Frenchman (I can smell his stench through the internet)might have voted for LePen though!

Don't fuel the bad frenchman, I sense mental disorder

R48 Too hot. French women are very attracted to me! I'm not attracted to French men though. The women are much better looking and are not as rude.

Americans, so obsessed with ethnicity.

R48 are you a tall healthy american bear ?

R53 No worries but they need to be put in their place. Germany does that to them on a daily basis and The French hardly fight back!

R56 I wouldn't say I'm a bear at all, I'm in good shape though.

[quote]I'm part French

Sadly, not where it counts.

R55 French are ethnically obsessed dreary. We know how much you love Muslims and Jews in France...not very much! French Jews are moving to The US to escape rising Antisemitism in France. Another big fail from the Gallic moron.

R59 You mean in being an ignorant,rude and boring snob.I'm not. The Spanish and Italians are much better in bed and have cleaner assholes!

I would still fuck Adjani no matter what the racist, ignorant dumb Frenchie says. I would go straight for her any day of the week. She is a great beauty and probably a fabulous fuck. I hope she has a boy toy to service her needs.

However, in France, men are not so mad about her. Brigitte BARDOT used to drive men crazy when she was younger....

BB was really hot in her younger days. One of a kind. Marceau, Adjani and Beart too.

R17 How do you know all of this?! This is so shocking!!

OK for Emmanuelle BEART, but ADJANI is known for being an hysterical actrice and sometimes a good actrice, but she has never been a sex symbol like BRIGITTE BARDOT (the only one to have a perfect body and face!).

R65, it's common knowledge in France

R66 She's not a bad actress but she is extremely sexy. I would make love to her for days on end.

R65 Marion is a ho say it ain't so. I wonder what Heavy Whalestein thinks about her.........................

R67 Do tell more! I want seedy details!

Can I enjoy Catherine Deneuve movies now anymore? With which directors did she sleep?

Wasn't Deneuve fucking the actor, Vincent Lindon? That was supposed to be a very down low type of thing.

[quote]she has never been a sex symbol

Oh bullshit. As if any straight man would have passed her up.

R71 There are gay men who wouldn't pass her up either. That's how hot she was.

Deneuve has fucked all of her straight diectors, (famously Truffaut) and co stars, and many film moguls. Her american fucks include Clint eastwood, john Travolta, Burt Reynolds...

R73 Make a list please, how do you know all of this? Are you in the French film industry? Tell us all the gossip you have please!

R71 Truffaut was too easy She lived with him at one point. So it just wasn't some Whalestein situation. Travolta? LOL He is so gay he makes Liberace look straight. Jack Lemmon and CD must have fucked for sure. Jack as such a stud.......

I was in the film french industry, it's common knowledge again. Deneuve is a huge whore. When her career was on the descending slope, she became canal+ CEO 's mistress, and he's The ugliest man in the world. Huppert was Du plantier's mistress for years, Adjani even complained about it in the press a couple years ago. All the best parts were for Huppert because she was Gaumont 's CEO 's slut. Every body knows in France, it's very public. Didn't you read Bardot and Deneuve 's réactions to the metoo movement ? An actress is expected to put out. Acting is the world's second oldest profession

R67 Rassam was the pygmalion and husband of Carole Bouquet. Never heard he slept with Adjani who notouriously prefers beautiful men. R70 Lindon was, during a short time, the fiancé of Chiara Mastroianni, Deneuve's daughter. R76 whore is the second oldest profession, pimp is the first.

Pierre Lescure, directeur of the Cannes film festival, film and tv mogul. Deneuve fell head over heels at first sight. Who wouldn't ?

(R78) : Beauty is not everything....except for gay people, sometimes straight people are smarter and sensitive.

Still....if he were just the plumber, I don't think that Cathie would have given a second look

[quote]I watch French movies all the fucking time you cottage filled cunt!

Do you, by any chance, think that you make Americans proud by a statement like this?

[quote]I have nothing against Jews and if Isabelle Huppert or Beart wanted to fuck me in their height of their beauty , Iwould go straight for them.

I'm pretty sure they would not stoop so low.

(R80 Like in the ordinary life, in an ordinary enterprise...women use to act like "cathie" and we are not in the entertainment business............

[quote]I'm part French

[quote]Sadly, not where it counts.

Retort of the day.

I would like to hear what other gossip R17 has to share.

[quote]Wasn't Deneuve fucking the actor, Vincent Lindon? That was supposed to be a very down low type of thing.

That would be really something considering Chiara Mastroianni dated Vincent Lindon for a few years not too long ago.

R17 has worked with, among others, a beautiful blond turned entrepreneur, a multiple feminist oscar winner, a director awarded for his work lately in a project famous for its controversial casting twink/too old twunk, a film and stage oscar winner who also helmed a legendary theatre in London, UK, and dated a DL fave, multiple award winner, film icon and ' sexiest men alive' lister. So R17 gossip would be too exhausting to share right now.

I admit "cottage-filled cunt" makes me chuckle.

Did she also sleep with Nino Castelnuovo?

Can I ever enjoy Belle De Jour and Les Parapluies De Cherbourg again or should I just kill myself?

You sound kind of sexist, all this "slut" talk...

Didn't know about Deneuve's alleged fame as a big whore, and don't know if it's true. But Truffaut slept virtually with every and each one of his leading ladies. As per Op's question, Adjani was crazy beautiful/sexy and insanely talented for decades, after her big break with Adele H. she became THE face of the new french cinema. Of course they gave her a ton of awards. Wonder if she slept with Truffaut too.

BTW, she lost 45 kilos???? was she obese??

NO! Truffaut wrote an ENTIRE essay titled ' I don't KNOW ( biblical sense) Isabelle Adjani' because he couldn't believe she had rejected his advances. He just couldn't cope. Again, french actresses....

well, Isabelle was very young when he directed her in Adele, that might explain it. Isabelle loved young dick!

Also, i hope that Truffaut pulled all that pussy because he was charming and not by abusing his powers. I love his movies, i don't wanna hear no #metoo on him!! He bedded Denueve (apparently), Julie Christie, Fanny Ardant, maybe Jacqueline Bisset. That's a straight man's idea of heaven!

She said it hadn't even crossed her mind that a respected director like Truffaut would make a pass at her, and that she wad still a virgin at the time (19yo) so it was completely off limit

R94, you can add Moreau, Dorleac, etc, and he was MARRIED all the way. What are you ? 12 ? Of course it was power play. Do you still not know how filmdom works ???

NO NO NO!!

Oh Lovey ! I am so sorry.

I remember an old interview Charlie Rose had with Deneuve where he started hinting at her affair with the married Truffaut which happened during the making of Mississippi Mermaid, but he didn't want to be straightforward and say, You fucked a married guy. Deneuve looked at him and said; What do you mean? It was delicious watching Rose trying to entangle himself out that one.

[quote] I love his movies, i don't wanna hear no #metoo on him!!

Oh, who gives a shit? Watch his movies or don't.

You sound like a Rowling-worshipping Harry Potter fan.

[quote]BTW, she lost 45 kilos???? was she obese??

One of the reasons she wasn't seen so much in recent years onscreen or off is because she was ashamed of her weight. She's always had a problem with aging publicly but the weight gain really upset her. I don't know if there was a medical condition behind it or not. She was pretty good at concealing the weight at first. I can't find the photo but there was a shocking one of her walking through a park. She was fat!

About a year or two ago she lost the weight and she looks great again. The bonus is that even though the weight lose made her look older in the face, she looks better face-wise because she no longer looks like a porcelain doll. She looks human again.

I don't give a shit, actually, R100. And i'm no frau or "harry potter fan". But Truffaut's movies are very special to me and i don't want anything seedy or sad associated with them. That's way i was hoping it was just all french joie de vivre rather than a director demanding his stars to put out.

She was hefty, yes.

Why do Isabelle and Isabelle not like each other?

R103 Me too :P

She's a legit lunatic, right? Not just a pampered narcissist like most successful actors.

R103, again I am sorry. But why would it be different because it's in France ? If anything it's worse. The metoo movement is ridiculed by Bardot, Deneuve, Cotillard, etc, because... It's the name of the game

R105. It's a Davis/Crawford situation. There's a man of course. They were room mates when they were very young. Then they played sisters in Techine ' the Brontë sisters'. They both fell for Bruno Nuytten. Adjani won and had a child with him. Huppert took her revenge out on taking all the leading parts Adjani wanted. Daniel Toscan du Plantier wrote that she harrassed him for the part in the film version of ' la dame aux camelias', and obsessed over not letting Adjani play the part.

Thanks, R105. I remember one year Isabelle Huppert was the President of the Jury at Cannes and she would not allow Adjani to present an award. Or so the rumors say.

I have "The Brontë sisters" DVD. I should rewatch it.

Isabelle Adjani

Ethnicity: *Algerian Kabyle (father) / *German (mother)

According to this article her father also has Turkish ancestry

I never knew there was an ongoing mystery around the tragic death of one of Tuscan Du Planier's wives. Looks like a case for the DL detectives!

Why are racists so fucking obsessed with people's ancestry?

I can't believe she's part Turkish!

Oh the Toscan du Plantier scandal! It didn't reach the american shores then it's a complete Agatha Christie's situation

R61 Unfortunately your Marine Le Pen is worse than Dump! How sad. ...Chirac had a run off against her father, a Neo Nazi! What kind of Western democracy has such an anti-Semite get that much of the vote ?His daughter is such a vile woman. How does a party like The National Front with its racist past have so much pull in the recent past? It speaks to the racism inherent in France.

Instead of cottage filled cunt you should be called cuntbreath. Why? because you beard with a wife and kids and go through the motions by pleasuring her. The joke is that you are a gay man. Your wife is so naive she can't see your gayness. That's OK because I do.

R86 Supposedly Vincent and Catherine had their fling before Chiara and Vincent got together.

R11 I've mentioned it on various threads. It is no big deal really.She was a really gorgeous woman and her multi-ethnic background is really cool.

R103 How do you think Truffaut and Fanny Ardant started out as lovers? Didn't see 'meet' him when she did The Woman Next Door?

R88 It's a cottage cheese infested cunt. Women get yeast infections down there and a cottage cheese like discharge can be a sign of it.

Didn't Ardant 'meet' him when she did The Woman Next Door?

More gossip please!

"meeting" a director on a movie set doesn't automatically mean the director fucked the actress to give her the part.

[quote]What kind of Western democracy has such an anti-Semite get that much of the vote ?

Britain, Labour's Jeremy Corbyn

True R124. It means the casting director fucked the actress to give her the part. True story: I was once the first assistant of a multi-award winner director. During the audition process of his new project, as we were on a break and having a party, a b/c list actress got heavily flirty with me to the point I got annoyed ( how can she not SEE?). Suddenly I had an inspiration and I told her: 'I don't have a say in casting '. She LITTERALY turned away and dropped me like a hot potatoe. DO YOU PEOPLE STILL DON'T UNDERSTAND HOW IT WORKS ????? WHAT DO YOU NEED ????

Don't want to derail the thread cause this is about Adjani, but that's quite an impressive list, R40

I was in the biz, upper circles of stardom, for years. I knew these people socially and professionaly. I don't remember them all, but I can add Emmanuelle Riva, Danielle Darrieux, Maria Casares, Emmanuelle beart, Sophie marceau Emmanuelle Seigner and Roman Polanski in France, David Suchet, Janet Suzman, Rupert Everett,Lambert Wilson, Nick Nolte, greta scacchi, daniel day lewis, marisa berenson, simon callow, Gwyneth Paltrow, amira casar, goran Visnjic, many many more. Adjani is certainly at the top of the tree talent wise

The Brontë Sisters is a very good movie. It's hit or miss with Téchiné. And in this case the cinematography is stunning. By Bruno Nuytten, who went on to direct Camille Claudel.

For another thread, bc I don't want to spoil this one, any stories that you would like about anyone from that list, R128

I went through a Gainsbourg phase a few weeks ago, and couldn't decide which album to buy. After seeing Adjani, it ended up being Pull marine. I only knew the title song, but I find it a terrific album, very personal - it's like what he wrote is the only text that "gets" her. And her interpretation is perfect. Listened to it all day long last weekend.

She was a STAR back then.

R130, I won't share any particular story, I forgot Kenneth Branagh, Sean Penn, Gena Rowlands, Robin Wright, Jack Huston, Ben Cross, so many I have known. some were great people, some were ASSHOLES. But I can tell you this: Mark Rylance is a lovely man, Frances mcDormand is a fantastic woman, shockingly different from her ridiculous oscar speech this year ( WTF???), Deneuve is absolutely Breathtaking IRL. (was, she's hitting 75). But the best of the bunch was the DIVINE Sir Alan Bates. Every minute spent with that man was a treat. And he was the most handsome human being I have ever seen.

Thanks R133. All of what you said adds up. Alan Bates did indeed look like a very kind human being. Anyway thanks for posting. Am listening to Le bonheur c'est malheureux by Adjani.

On the set of Quartet

Isabelle's psychotic break in Possession is one of the most unforgettable scenes in history of movies.

R124 What planet do you live on Uranus? Most actresses have gotten the part because they fucked the director,chief executive of the company or the casting director. Stop mythologizing Truffaut. He might have been a great director BUT he was not above rewarding women who slept with him for roles. BTW he wasn't getting those women because he looked like Warren Beatty either! He did so because he was a director with influence and prestige. Even though I'm a fan of his, I'm glad Izzy said no to his advances She might have been a slut but at least she was a selective one!

Isabelle most disturbing moment. She said she regrets taking the part and playing it.

Truffaut was a genius and a lovely man.

Are The Cesars even respected in France ?

R12 Big fail. Corbyn has been contrite about Antisemitism in The Labour party. Jean-Marie Le Pen is a Holocaust denier and a veritable Neo-Nazi. He is not repentant in the least.

R139 At least Truffaut liked overage pussy! Thanks for your support but FT might have taken advantage of his position but he wasn't molesting young,illegal girls.

Lol R140. NOT. Pale copy of the oscars. Not fooling anyone. Always same nominees, all white and already well known. Huppert Depardieu Deneuve Adjani Binoche etc totalize 3452 nominations. Nobody watches. Nobody watches the movies either. French film industry works differently. The ' avance sur recettes ' system means the films that are produced and distributed already made their production cost covered by the bank/public subsidies/ tv rights. Of course said Huppert Deneuve Depardieu Adjani et all take turns for the presidency of the comitee of 'avance sur recettes'. It's all a big joke. The films that actually make money are surprise hits, and are NEVER aknowledged by the industry because instead of documenting the heartaches of the french upperclass in fancy parisian cafés, so dear to Truffaut and clique, with actresses dressed and madeup by Chanel, talking as if they were perpetually ordering delicacies at Fauchon, they are full of arabs and blacks. When they industry cannot ignore an international success, like for Omar Sy, they quickly give a token award and bury their career, and go back to our dear old bougeoisies ' torments, where nobody in Paris live in less than 5 bedrooms Haussman flats facing the Eiffel tower.

R143 well he certainly tried with 19 yo virgin Isabelle that pig, and wad so stunned to be rebuffed he PUBLISHED an essay about it.

^oh shut up, that essay is beautiful and it's a real ode to a magnificent, intelligent, young actress. Read it before you clutch your pearls!!

Tbh R137, I don't think she ever was a slut. Whatever that might mean in your eyes. Sensual, intense, romantic, (nuts), sure- but a calculating individual sleeping to advance her career - I honestly don't think so. She seems to have fallen for artistic types, frankly.

Adjani is not the slut that Huppert and Deneuve but she has been a bit of one. She also hasn't had a stable long term relationship like Huppert has had. The whole DDL thing was a mess. Adjani calls him to congratulate him.on his marriage and his side piece answers. You can't make this shit up.

Yeah, but that's not her fault that's on DDL R147.

And, at least she's got manners. (seems like he doesn't)

R147, I sense missing words in your post

R148 She was clueless and mindless about getting involved with such a douche. She got knocked up by him and he was the wrong guy to be paired with. She seems to exercise bad judgement when it comes to relationships. Unilke Huppert,who has been married for years and had her kids by her husband, Adjani has acted more flippantly when it comes to her men and children.

R149 She might have manners but she comes across as an idiot in that situation.

Her son Barnabé referred to her as ' a doormat', in high school

Can you imagine the relationship between Adjani and DDL?? Two "tortured" highly praised intense actors. What a nightmare!

Why was Huppert a slut :-O

I think I need to kill myself :O

Oh can we talk ? Huppert is a real life Merteuil. Slept her way to the top and slept her staying even harder. Why do you think she excels at playing sexual psychos ? Because she's a nun IRL ?

R155 Who are you?!

^stories? you seem awfully sure of this, so spill.

Isabelle and DDL's son got his mom's beautiful eyes.

What R155 writes about is common knowledge.

R159 Why is it common knowledge?? You need to explain a bit more. None of us in the French film industry.

R155 Well Izzy Huppert is a successful slut! Give her credit on that note I wonder if she is tutoring her daughter(now an actress) on who to fuck,suck and blow Too bad Whalestein is not in the business anymore....

Oh and Kris Kristofferson wants all his cumloads back, Ms Huppert! Cimino knew you were using KK and you were his favorite sperm catcher on that set. Rosie Vela didn't even cum close.....

R156 It is La Huppert's husband!

You are all so cruel:-((((((((((((((((((((((

I have watched more than 40 movies with Catherine et Isabelle!

What's with all the slut shaming?

I would take what's written here with a grain of salt, R163.

why R164?

GGG blocked for a more sane reading of this thread.

R164 This is a very French topic darling. Metoo doens't apply here, just ask La Deneuve who believes that men should molest her.

Do you know what slut shaming means, R168? If these actresses who, supposedly, have all this sex don't complain about it, what's your problem with it? No #metoo in French cinema, right?

R164 Thanks for being my friend!

R169 You are not well. You need help. You don't understand irony at all now do you? They aren't using their talent to get ahead BUT their cunt! People have the right to criticize their slutty behavior. The directors, executives and casting agents who take advantage of these situation are scum.

R170 Just because a woman is a slut doesn't mean she's not talented ?! Woody Allen is a great director but he is still a sick pervert.

[quote]People have the right to criticize their slutty behavior.

These (French) women are not complaining about their choices. So what's with the slut shaming then? They are not allowed to make a choice that you don't agree with... because they are women? Do you slut shame men?

I didn't think so.

Why did they take away the great Mr Weinstein's award in France. He was so wonderful and helped so many actresses.

R173, your whatabutism is completely off the point.

R172 You don't pay attention at all now do you? You are positively and absolutely clueless. The predators in the entertainment business are complete fucking scum. You do know what that means? Using women for their bodies and not their talent is a wicked thing indeed. By the same token, if any man or woman willingly goes along with the casting couch on a regular basis they deserve to be criticized or slut shamed. Notice that I mentioned men as well as women.

France treated such a great man as a common criminal. Weinstein was such a film god. The French should have defended him for acting like a sleazy rapist and ritual abuser.

R175, you posted repeatedly on this thread calling these actresses sluts, so, yes, I wonder why that is.

[quote]The predators in the entertainment business are complete fucking scum.

So after thirty posts about how horribly slutty French actresses are you suddenly have an opinion on the men? Give me a break. You are not fooling anyone.

Again, R176, completely off the point.

It takes one person's venom to kill a thread. Shame it happened to this thread.

I'm checking out.

R164 Don't go, I like you!

R177 You have a serious reading comprehension problem. Moron in my previous post I mentioned men. The topic here has been Adjani not Brialy. If you want to mention how he sucked his way to the top will call him out for being a slut as well. Your stupidity is not fooling anyone. If any actor acted like these actresses they deserved to be slut shamed..PERIOD!

GGG let the OCD obsessive go. She can now slut shame men who fucked their way to the top! I can't wait to see her list.

Harvey and Catherine together. Don't they make a cute couple? I bet Isabelle Adjani would never get 10 feet close to this creep.

Isabelle Adjani goes against the grain and supports the metoo movement. Good for her standing up against harassment and being used for sex rather than talent.

Too many derails on this thread. Anyway, thank you for the article R184.

Adjani. She's right, and she doesn't forget all the women.

The career she had (still has) with the beauty and talent she was born with say a lot about French society, and even more about the world of "cinema".

I am the insider. What happened to this thread ? I was busy all day, and come back to a complete mess, with hysterical frenchies jumping at each other's throat in broken english, and fraus devastated by Truffaut being a sex pest, or by all the slut shaming... Gurls! Stop being so french.

Hello insider, some very strange things have been happening to this thread indeed. Meanwhile, I have been watching Le Petit Bougnat and found out that 1. Isabelle Adjani was very cute at 15 - or rather, distractingly beautiful 2. her natural hair colour is chestnut brown

I need to watch Adèle H and Camille Claudel. The latter's very existence made a huge impact on me when I was a kid, yet I've never seen it. I have been to countless Rodin and/or Claudel exhibitions. And hate Paul Claudel with a passion, but that is another story. Or simply, the same story.

The French (even just culturally French) age so well.

Now I want to see her in a play and a movie. Hell, I want to direct her in a play and a movie!

films are not rocket science.

I wonder if Isabelle Adjani would do an American series on HBO, Showtime, Starz or one of the digital platforms like Amazon, Hulu or Netflix. She would be a great asset to a so-called quality TV show.Huppert has been far more aggressive in working in The US. To her credit, Huppert has even done independent American cinema for the most part . Her most American commercial film might have been The Bedroom Window.

That's very true, R192. It would be very cool if she did. As for Huppert... I don't care for her one way or the other. Okay, Saint-Cyr was a great movie, I'll give her that.

She looks terrible

She doesn't, come on. And besides, she's 62.

R192 Huppert is very well respected by many prominent American actors and actresses. The cult of Heaven's Gate(the film not the cult) has long given her career a sort of luster in The US. Huppert also appeared in an episode of Law and Order: SVU with Sharon Stone! I have to admit that she really took piss and made it in champagne!

Adjani could have been a much bigger star internationally especially in The US. Her German is amazing(because of her German mom) and her English is pretty good. She could have done quality films or TV series in The American market . It worked for Huppert whose English is quite good(her mom was an English teacher) but has an extremely heavy accent. Instead Adjani has that piece of shit called Ishtar to hold up!

Isabelle was reluctant to work in american cinema when her first (and only?) american movie, The Driver, was panned. Now it's a cult movie.

It's a cult movie in R197's household= he and cat in mother's basement. For the rest of the world it's a wildly unseen/forgotten stinker.

It's a cult movie, it was basically remade as Drive with Ryan Gosling. go watch your marvel adventures and let adults talk, r198

Booooo hooo mr. Frenchie all fired up again !!

I saw Ishtar around 1992 on TV, had no idea what it was and found it very funny. I was just a kid and haven't seen it since, but back then I saw it maybe 2 or 3 times. It felt like an unusual, goofy comedy.

Sorry, meant to link to this one. Anyway, Ishtar got way worse press than it deserved. There might have been something irreverent about it that a certain mentality didn't like.

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i'm not french, i got no horse in this race, but anyone who knows cinema knows that The Driver is a quintessential cult movie, r200.

It's easy to forget that these bodies, all of them, are made up of individuals.

They're not perfectly selected and scanned against the general public until they get people who are totally in line with the average.

So some institutions favor other some and overlook others. Like how, for instance, AMPAS seemed to be fond of Marsha Mason and Jessica Lange, while not really warming to Judy Davis.

It's the same all around.

R204 It is a cult movie. Just look at the inflated prices for its US Blu-ray release.

Adjani did Diabolique with Sharon Stone as well. Not her best role but she was OK in it. Stone was her usual shitacular self. Who did she fuck to get this role?

I'm still having nightmares from this thread. The French guy sounds deranged. Now he is even accusing Brialy!

I could watch this. Man, Sharon Stone gets a lot of screen time.

Kathy Bates is in this movie??

R207 Are you losing your mind? Brialy was mentioned as a what if scenario. No one accused him of anything.

R206 she is and she was of course much better in Misery.

Who are you R209? Are you the gossip guy?

R210 I'm one of them! There are more than one on here.

What did you do in the industry? Have you spend some time with stars :P And from which time on have you been a part?

I didn't work for Weinstein, Though i know people who have . I worked in the music and movie business. I met a lot of people and heard a lot of first hand gossip. It is funny how loose mouthed people are off the record. It was in the 90s and The Twenty Os.

I remember when Beatty and Adjani did Ishtar, they talked about having a threesome with Fran Drescher of The Nanny fame. Adjani and Beatty were hardly speaking at that point but still fucking. Fran wasn't interested so the threesome never happened.

Please tell everything you know :P What is the celebrity you know most about? Which ones were the nicest or coolest ones?

I am a 20-something gay German guy and I've never been into your world. Do tell!

R214 Start a new thread on this topic OR check out the one of the Hollywood gossip threads here. I caught an infamous gossip reporter from the US on one of the threads. There are at least two I know that post here at Datalounge.

Great dish, thank you R213

That is a cool thread R215, but maybe we need a refresh from 2011

R217 That are multiple Gossip No One IN Hollywood Will Say Out Loud threads not just that one. Do a search and you will find the most current one.

R215 Maybe we can talk in private via Google Hangouts or so and you can tell me all you know :P Please?

R219 You can find me on Datalounge on the various threads. Ask anything on The Gossip No One Will Say Out Loud threads and you are bound to get an answer!

But I want to chat with you on google or so. It is far easier there to get all the information one needs. I would just die to receive first-hand gossip :P You are cute! Are you gay?

I don't want to chat elsewhere. I'm sorry I feel comfortable posting here. You can even more information you want on The DL if you ask the right questions. Good luck!

Nooooooooooooooo :-(

Do you have gossip about River Phoenix?

Ask on The Gossip threads, this is about Adjani. Thanks.

What else do you know about Adjani? Want to give replies Tolstoi style :P

Adjani's plastic surgery before and after. She is not Joan Rivers frightening but she is getting there.

Nevertheless, I still recognised her right away when she stood 5 feet from me less than two weeks ago.

One of the biggest problems on the Ishtar set had to do with director Elaine May's jealousy towards Adjani. Adjani and Beatty's relationship had become strained to the point where they rarely spoke a word to one another. May was trying to sabotage Adjani's role in any way. May acting like a complete cunt missed the post production dubbing session in which Adjani appeared. That was May's fuck you to both Beatty and Adjani. May actually fucked herself because her direction was hated by Beatty and almost everyone else on the film. The result? Ishtar bombed at the box office!

R227 She looks recognizable but looks kind of strange.Remember how La Bellucci was usually mistaken for Adjani? I think Monica and Isabelle are very hot in different ways. However Bellucci likes pussy and Adjani doesn't! Big difference I say.

Isabelle adjani sucking boob - One Deadly Summer

The Diabolique remake is a trash and glorious. I love it!

Sharon Stone and Adjani are practically screaming “international superstar!” in every frame they’re in.

Stone as a school teacher in a black cocktail dress at the chalkboard. It’s priceless.

Not to be missed.

Thank you, R231. The black cocktail dress is a nice touch.

I LOVE the remake of "Diabolique". Stone's wardrobe was Fab and she perfect in the part. Kathy Bates "never two boobs in a casket' was fabulous, as always.

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