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The eternal French rose, she is isabelle adjani.

Text/Chen Yining

Isabelle adjani is the highest honor of French films, having won the Cesar Award five times and the heroine award at Cannes and Berlin Film Festival. She has the skin of a western woman whiter than snow, black hair with oriental beauty, and moving and unfathomable eyes like a blue lake. It is impossible to describe her in a few adjectives. If there is one word that can represent her, it can only be-Ajiani, herself.

Her beautiful, innocent eyes are melancholy and sad, and a little desperate. Her expression in the role is always cold and free. Captured by the lens, she created unattainable beauty, just like the moon in the water and the flower in the mirror. If she watches it for a long time, she will be shocked unconsciously.

Ajiani was born in a small town on the outskirts of Paris on 1955. Her father is a Turkish Algerian and her mother is a German. Her parents are French immigrants. When she was a child, she suffered from autism because of language barriers, lack of material life and communication barriers.

This provided a certain foundation for her later film roles with some nervousness and sadness. After she fell in love with acting, she only vented her emotions during the performance, which is one of the reasons why she can let go of her baggage and get hysterical in the film.

After becoming famous, her father has also been educating her not to expose her family privacy in public, so she basically refuses to be interviewed and does not speak in public except acting. This makes her have an eccentric temper and a maverick style, and is also recognized as a difficult star.

1969, Agani, who was only 14 years old, took advantage of her summer vacation to shoot her screen debut "Little Coal Merchant". At that time, she was young and sweet, and the hot summer sun added a girlish filter to her lens.

1974, she received a letter from the famous director Truffaut, which wrote: "You are an extraordinary actress. Except jeanne moreau, I have never been so eager to fix a face in the movie ... "It must be that bright and mysterious temperament and addictive eyes deeply attracted him.

Truffaut's middle-aged Adjani, only 19 years old, is an ideal person to play Adele Hugo who is crazy about love. Unexpectedly, Adjani refused Truffaut, so Truffaut wrote in his second letter: "Your face alone can tell a touching story, and your eyes alone can create a dramatic atmosphere. You can even play a movie without a storyline, that is, a documentary about you, which will be comparable to any feature film. " These words finally touched Agani, who may not know much about love. She plays Adele Hugo, the little daughter of the great writer Hugo.

She successfully shaped Adele Hugo's sense of forbearance, obsession, madness and fatalism under his marginalized personality. Let people who have seen the movie know that the plot is struggling and sad.

At the end of the film, Adele stood by the sea, her long hair fluttering and her skirt fluttering. Jia Ni's face was superimposed on the screen, and the sea rippled behind her. She looked us straight in the eye and said obsessively to the camera, "Qian Shan is full of water, and Qian Shan is full of water, to see you. Only I can do this!

Her straight expression is so cold that it hurts. A film critic once commented: "I wonder if the camera Truffaut used to shoot Adele Hugo's story is still there?" Because the camera glass stared at by Agani must be broken, even if it is not crazy. "

French fans believe that there is only one Agani in a century, and she will always be mysterious, literary and charming.

She is a representative figure of French films. As long as you talk about French movies in depth, you can't avoid Ajiani. She can go down in the history of movies.

Although her films are not well known to the public in other countries, most of her films are literary films because she rarely makes commercial films.

That year, she was 40. Her Queen Margo is said to be the pinnacle of Agani's beauty, and you can hardly see the traces of time on her face.

The original film is adapted from Dumas, and the story revolves around 1572 "Saint bartholomew Massacre", the turning point of the French religious war. Agani thoroughly interprets nobility and hatred, fragmentation and cruelty, and her face value and acting skills prop up this film which is tangled between chaotic court and civil war. She won the César Awards laurel for the fourth time and became a French national treasure actress.

Agani yearns for freedom in life, and the shadow of her childhood makes her feel that her soul is wandering. Her father is Algerian and her mother is German, but she hasn't found her "roots" yet. "For a long time, I have been trying to tie my roots in one place through a love or a place."

But in the end, what she likes most is the kind of carefree life.

"If I were not an actor, I might help others in a humanitarian organization."

After experiencing love, betrayal and pregnancy, even if the beauty is dying, she is still the eternal French rose.

All the glory that once existed in life needs to be repaid by loneliness in the end.

Some people are destined to live for movies, such as isabelle adjani.