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Filmming
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1978.06-08
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Date
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1979.05.09 in
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695,
446 in France
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0000.00.00
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Les Sœurs Brontë (1979)
DIRECTOR: André Téchiné
CAST: Isabelle Adjani; Marie-France Pisier; Pascal Greggory;
SYNOPSIS
Charlotte
Brontë reminds certain episodes of her life with her father, the reverend
Brontë, her two sisters Emily and Anne and her brother Brandwell. While
the three sisters wrote novels, poems, their brother artist-painter fell in love
with Mrs Robinson, seventeen years older, who, in spite of the death of her husband,
did not want to marry him. Brandwell was addicted to alcohol and drug, died at
the end of his decadence, at the age of 31. A little later Emily was overcome
by tuberculosis. Discrete Anne died in the following year. Charlotte remained
alone, increased her literary success. In 1854, she marries Mr. Nicholls. With
her father and her husband, only Charlotte seemed happy.
NOTE
lthough the film
is seldom mentioned now, it should be a remarkable film for any of them:
Andrew Techine, I. Huppert and Adjani, or Pascal Geoggory (his film debut) -
FORUM
QUOTE
Daniel
Toscan du
Plantier
" Bouleversifiant"
©Éditions
du Seuil, May 1992 ISBN 2-03-013690-2
It was during a time the most prestigious project associating three great actresses:
Isabelle Adjani, Marie Pisier France, Isabelle Huppert, under the authority of
a future great director,
Andre Techiné. I found them all in the end of the English countryside.
The first images, seen from the screen at the village cinema, appeared terribly
dark, insufficiency of light imposed by Bruno Nuytten, the director of the photography.
There were no more heat in the hearts than on the screen , and the ridiculous
supply problems brought to the top of all others: thus, in the modest inn where
these young ladies lived, there was only one big room, nimbly requisitioned for
Isabelle Adjani, with whom her two "comrades" did not speak any more.
With the cinema, alas, any account, and the least insignificant details come
to
disturb the clothes industry of work, for their costs.
AWARD
Official Selection
of Cannes Film Festival,
1979
TRIVIA
It's said the film was shot in both French and
English. The actors spoke their lines in two languages in every single shot
It is the film to Pascal Geoggory, who plays Bronte mediocre brother, to opposite
three already-prestigious three "sisters": Adjani, Pisier and Huppert.
The tension between Adjani and Huppert (when shooting on the set) is "notorious".
Pascal Geoggory recalled (on Les Inrocks, September
3-9, N°405), "One day, Isabelle Huppert ended up in tears in a
scene with Adjani. That is a scene fairly simply, where Adjani should put a clip
into Isabelle's hairdo tenderly. But in every take, Adjani almost pricked Huppert's
cranium to bleed with the clip. Men are less hard among them to work. They played
it rather buddies, which, between brackets, I don't like much either.
REVIEW
Les
Seours Brontes by Andre Technine (in French), Première n° 28,
May,
1979 |
