Alyah
In 2011 Adèle was in three films shown at the Cannes Film Festival and this led to more recognition and offers. In 2012 she was France's winner of the Shootiong Stars Award, that recognises Europe's best young acting talent. Her career was really taking off!
Aliyah is Adèle's first collabaration with actor Pio Marmai, the lead in this film, who she will work with in 2018 in En Liberte! Both actors show their capabilities, as they are so very different in the two films. Adèle has a supporting role in this film and, as always, nails every scene she is in. In particular, the cafe diagram scene is heartbreaking, and she is gorgeous. (How he leaves her is beyond me!!)
Trailer
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Alternate title
Aliyah
Year
2012
Director
Elie Wajeman
Synopsis
Paris 2011. Alex is twenty-seven years old. He lives from the sale of drugs and pays the debts of his brother Isaac, who after being his support became his burden. So when his cousin announces that he is opening a restaurant in Tel-Aviv, Alex imagines joining him to finally change his life.
Determined to leave, Alex must find the money and make his Alyah.
But he must also leave Paris that he loves so much, Esther his former love, Mathias his lifelong friend and Jeanne whom he has just met.
Caught between his Alyah, the sale of drugs, his complex love affairs and a destructive brother, Alex will have to find his way.
Honours/Awards
- Quinzaine Des Réalisateurs Festival Cannes 2012
- Public prize at the readings of the Premiers Plans Festival in Angers
Adèle’s role
Jeanne, Alex’s girlfriend. Supporting role.
Excerpts from reviews
“There is in this story an energy and a perfume of psychologico-romantic thriller held by the charisma of the actors, the animal freshness of Adèle Haenel revealed by the film "Naissance des Pieuvres", the good behavior of the dialogues and so many others things.”
“…Adèle Haenel, Alex’s girlfriend, already seen in ‘Naissance des Pieuvres’ and ‘L’Appolonide’, imposes a character in love with a singular modernity."
“The sudden onset of a flirtation with a young woman also released (Adèle Haenel, radiant, who offers the film her most beautiful scenes), will not change anything in this trajectory programmed for grief.”
Comments
This is Elie Wajeman’s first film.
Adéle will later work with Pio Marmai in En Liberte!
Contemporary actors
"Nourished by his references from the 90s and very inspired by the generation of actors who emerged thanks to Arnaud Desplechin or Olivier Assayas , the director showed himself eager to reproduce a similar process, contextualized in our time, giving their chance to actors who are still little known, such as Adèle Haenel and Guillaume Gouix : "I had to choose contemporary actors to give the film its modernity", he sums up."
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