The Story of Adèle H. (1975)
Directed by François Truffaut
In the 19th century a mysterious woman named Adele H. crosses the ocean, from Europe to North America, to relentlessly pursue a handsome officer that denies her satisfaction.
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Portrait of a Lady on Fire — a bold title fusing Henry James’s psychological acuity to Alicia Keys’s pop audacity — should have been as sensually powerful as Truffaut’s Brontë-esque films The Story of Adèle H. and Two English Girls, while cinematographer Claire Mathon also evokes the neoclassical palette of Rohmer’s The Marquise of O. Instead, it’s as sentimental and predictable as Carol .
The midsection plays like a Malick rework of "The Story of Adele H," Truffaut's tale of a poet's daughter gone mad by unrequited love for a soldier.
Cinematographer Nestor Almendros, a Cuban expatriate, had previously worked with Truffaut on "The Story of Adele H." and won an Oscar the year before for Malick's "Days of Heaven," does a good job making Manhattan come alive as part of the narrative and using tight shots to highlight the anxiety of his subjects.