New Stuff: L'été meurtrier (1983)

 

Isabelle Adjani

 ph: Brigitte Lacombe

Isabelle Adjani

 

ph: Marianne Rosenstiehl

Isabelle Adjani

 

ph: Jean Claude-Deutsch

Isabelle Adjani

 

ph: Claude Azoulay

Isabelle Adjani

 

ph: Claude Azoulay

Isabelle Adjani

 

Isabelle Adjani

 

ph: Dominique Issermann

Isabelle Adjani

Isabelle Adjani

ph: Claude Azoulay

Isabelle Adjani

Isabelle Adjani

Diabolique (1996)

The wife and mistress of the sadistic dean of an exclusive prep school conspire to murder him.

Superfluous remake of Henri-Georges Clouzot's classic which proves that a star cast and adequate production don't necessarily result into a great movie.

Halliwell (no star): "An appalling remake of  Henri-Georges Clouzot's masterly Les Diaboliques; it is boring, badly made and miserably acted."

Maltin*1/2: "Top-notch cast founders in this amazingly monotonous (not to mention crude and embarassing) redo of the 1955 classic...This dreary film thoroughly trashes the memory of the original - and even the made-for-TV remakes!"

Possession (1981)

A woman starts exhibiting increasingly disturbing behavior after asking her husband for a divorce, but suspicions of infidelity soon give way to something much more sinister.

A feverish domestic drama turns into a surreal horror shocker with deliberately way-over-the-top performances; obviously meant as an allegory, but remains indecipherable.

Halliwell (no star): "Extraordinary horror movie pitched at a level of hysteria and, with its setting of a divided Berlin, no doubt is intended as an allegory, though of what, among the blood and gore, attitudinizing and demented performances, is anybody's guess."

Maltin*1/2: "Confusing drama of murder, horror, intrigue, though it's all attractively directed."

Isabelle Adjani

New Stuff: Nosferatu - Phantom der Nacht

Last time I saw this movie was in 1979; I want to check it out again, especially for the soundtrack and the opening sequence in the Capuchin catacombs of Palermo.

Isabelle Adjani

From my vaults: Isabelle Adjani

 

Bio:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isabelle_Adjani

Le locataire (1976)

aka

Der Mieter West Germany
The Tenant USA





A quiet and inconspicuous man rents an apartment in France where the previous tenant committed suicide...

At the same time satirical and haunting psychological thriller, reminiscent of the director's own Repulsion and one of his best works.

Isabelle Adjani