Luc Besson fits Adèle Blanc-Sec
In the mid-2000s, Luc Besson embarked on an ambitious project adapting the books Arthur and the Minimoys using a 3D animation technique. The first film was released in 2006, the second in 2009. And while the third work of the trilogy was released in 2010, a few months earlier, it is another adaptation that the director staged with The extraordinary adventures of Adèle Blanc-Sec (2010). Based on the comic of the same name by Jacques Tardi (1976), the film has as its protagonist a novelist/investigator from the early 1910s.
In this adventure, she sometimes has to investigate a 135-million-year-old pterodactyl egg that has hatched and is wreaking havoc in Paris, and sometimes she has to travel to Egypt in hopes of awakening a mummified doctor who can help her cure of his sister a vegetative state following an accident. A search obviously fraught with pitfalls.
Louise BourgoinMathieu Amalric, Gilles Lellouche and Jean-Paul Rouve appear Adele Blanc-Sec. The actress plays the main role of Adèle, making it particularly sympathetic and energetic. Luc Besson would have become especially fond of the personality of the actresssimilar in his opinion to the character because “capable of going from hot to cold in the blink of an eye“, despite being”less crazy“than heroin. Publication had also highlighted Louise Bourgoin’s performance, “unassailable as Mademoiselle Blanc-Sec: funny and annoying at the same time“.
A remarkable success… in China!
Quite well received by the press (an average of 2.8/5 on Allociné) and by the French public (1.6 million entries), Adèle Blanc-Sec managed to attract attention abroad too. In French-speaking countries, such as Belgium, Switzerland or Quebec, but not only. Although in the United States the film was released only two years later directly on DVD, in Chinathe feature film was a real success in theaters.
In just two weeks after its release in China, the film grossed 5.5 million euros. Then, with almost 2 million entries, The extraordinary adventures of Adèle Blanc-Sec became “the greatest success for a French-language film in this territory“he announced UniFrance. Many films have done better in China, but these are co-productions and works that are not in French. AS Lucia which exceeded 7 million entries, or even The Last Wolf by Jean-Jacques Annaud, a French-Chinese co-production which totaled 12 million admissions.
In all, The extraordinary adventures of Adèle Blanc-Sec it grossed over $33 million worldwide.
Source: Cine Serie
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