From the movie title: “The Story Of Adèle H,” it can be deduced that the movie was
directly from her diary. Adle Hugo under the shadow of her father, Victor Hugo, one of the
most famous man alive at the time. She tries to turn her self-destructive love for a cad into
a work of art. Director Franois Truffaut used passion, obsession, fame, pain, madness,
rejection, independence, deceit, humiliation and politics as the themes in his movie.
Although the movie portrayed the life of Adèle Hugo, I would prefer to give the movie the
title, “broken hearts” because majority of characters in the movie were sad due to one
reason or the other. For example, Adèle drove herself into becoming mad apparently
because of a love affair gone sour. Her dad was sadden and disappointed by her behavior
and her mother ill health even got worse which lead to her death all because their hearts
were all broken. Poor Lieutenant Pinson’s heart was also broken when Adèle Hugo caused
the cancelation of his engagement to someone else.
After watching the movie I can say that my favorite character is Adle Hugo played by
Isabelle Adjani. Isabelle Adjani was outstanding because throughout the movie, she
showed her people could be emotionally and psychologically unstable especially when
they are denied things they are obsessed about. Adle Hugo is my favorite character because
her repressed life has resulted in a hunger so insatiable, although her obsession nearly
destroyed her. For me, as a first generation college student from a poor family in Nigeria,
