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Filmming
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1980.05-07
Roma, Italy |
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1981.02.26
Italy
1981.03.11
France |
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0000.00.00
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La Dame
aux Camélias (1981)
DIRECTOR: Mauro Bolognini
CAST: Gian Maria Volonté; Bruno Ganz; Fabrizio Bentivoglio
SYNOPSIS
A true story about a girl called Aphonsine Duplessis,
who inspired Alaxandre Dumas to write his most famous novel and play: Lady
of Camelias, later on, the famous
opera La Traviata by Verdi.
Aphonsine was 16 year-old when she was sold to
a businessman by her father. She soon perverted to a prostitute then a famous
countess in Paris. There're four men around her: the old Duke, the father-like
servant, her husband, and her lover Jr. Dumas. Aphonsine died of tuberculosis
at the age of 23.
NOTE
Isabelle is very touching in this film.
Supper beautiful whether as 16-year-old girl and a countess. She shows all
her fragility, sensitivity and subtlety. She is such a young beauty in the
film.
The custome, the production design and cinematography
are also very great. The music (by Ennio Morricone) is orginally composed but
well interwoven with Verdi's famous score, so as the films is interwoven with
Dumas's famous play and his life.
- FORUM
QUOTE
Daniel
Toscan du Plantier
"Bouleversifiant"
©Éditions du Seuil, May 1992
ISBN 2-03-013690-2
Isabelle Huppert, who had already so much brought me in my work, lived in the
obsession that her rival, Isabelle Adjani, not seize this subject too much. It
seemed to me that one of the last successors of Visconti could, in a style less
chichiteux than the other heriter , Zeffirelli, to make the spirit lyric of this
work quite far away from the tone of the modern cinema. Bolognini made a splendid
artistic work around the disconcerting presence of Isabelle, small girl wounded
contrary to the divas toussotantes. The result is ambiguous and disappointed
the public, who awaited probably more cries, tears, passions, tumults. I should
have engaged Verdi! In this film-opera without music, I had forgotten the essence,
making me insult by music people who said that was not and cinema people who
reproached me for not making realistic films. It was necessary to apply the letter
to the council of Jean Cocteau: "Cultive the one who reproaches you, it's
you." One should write it in gold letters on the doors of all the film schools
in the world.
Mauro Bologninin,
the film director
"
Isabelle
vue par....", 1988
I immediately thought of her, because I didn't
want to make "Maguerite Gauthier's romance" with Garbo, but, in reverse,
I wanted to tell a simple story of a girl who died in her 20s, a real woman of
flesh and blood. A provoking film, the opposite of Garbo's. And then, a miracle
happened, something I hadn't expected, day after day, with her mysterious qualities,
Isabelle was getting beautiful, very beautiful, and more beautiful than I wanted
her to be. She didn't make any composition, she became the character, always
that
more beautiful one
AWARD
Best Costume and
Production Design, David di Donatello Awards (equivalent to Oscars in USA),
1982
TRIVIA
It's the
22th Dame aux camélias by the time when the film was released (March 9,
1981 in France), noteable is Greta Garbo in "The Romance of Marguerite
Gautier by George Cukor in 1937, but is first time about Alphonsine Duplessis
- the real young girl who inspired the Son of Alexandre Dumas to write the
famous novel and play
REVIEW
Des
Orchidées pour La Dame aux Camélias, L'Express, le 9
mars, 1981
Isabelle Passe un Test,
Nouvel Obs, le 9 mars, 1981
Camelias: une dame chasse
l'autre, Le point, le 9 mars, 1981
Le Travail de Comedienne (interview
in french), L'humanite, le 10 mars, 1981
Isabelle Huppert ne veut
plus mourir au cinéma, France Soir, le 11mars, 1981
La fille
aux fleurs rouges, France Soir, le 11 mars, 1981
Bolognini: la réalité contre
la légende, le Matin de Paris, le 11 mars, 1981
Une enfant saturnienne dans
un Paris de Mausolées, Le Matin de Paris, le 11 mars, 1981
Huppert l'heure
du cynisme, Le
quotidien de matin, le mars 11, 1981
La Dame aux
camelias (fr), Première n° 48, mars 1981
La Dame aux camelias, 20 ans,
mars,
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