Watch: Les Aventures extraordinaires d’Adèle Blanc-Sec 2010 123movies, Full Movie Online – Desperate to cure her near catatonic sister, intrepid authoress Adèle Blanc-Sec braves ancient Egyptian tombs and modern Egyptian lowlife to locate a mummified doctor and get him back to Paris. Her hope is that oddball Professor Espérandieu will then use his unusual powers to bring the doctor back to life so he, in turn, can use his centuries-old skills on the unfortunate sister. In Paris however Espérandieu is already causing mayhem, having brought to life what was a safe museum egg but is now a very active pterodactyl. Paris 1911 may not be the healthiest place to be..
Plot: An adventure set in the early part of the 20th century, focused on a popular novelist and her dealings with would-be suitors, the cops, monsters, and other distractions.
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Beautifully filmed fantasy in minutely reconstructed early 20th century Paris
“Les aventures extraordinaires d’Adèle Blanc-Sec” is a good film. It almost qualifies for very good, but there a few small details which are poorly executed and which bar it from reaching its full potential.The film has three excellent elements: masterful pacing, perfect editing and a great leading actress. Louise Bourgoin carries the movie with no apparent effort; the character of Mlle. Adèle Blanc-Sec “comme le vin” (*) fits right in with the minutely reconstructed Paris near the beginning of the 20th century. The quick pacing and seamless editing convey the thrill of moving from panel to panel in a comics (**) book (and I suspect that this was the intended effect).
(*) “Blanc sec” is French for “dry white”. She helpfully tells a police officer that her name is “Dry White, as the wine”, adding that he probably knows very well how to spell that.
(**) (For Americans) Note that in France and Belgium (and in Italy, to some extent) comics (“B.D.” for “bandes dessinées”) are an art form bearing little resemblance with Marvel’s productions.
To get the most from the film you should watch it in the original French — if you understand French, of course (subtitles may help). Part of the zany humor derives from the untranslatable undertones and rhythm of the dialog and narration.
The small details which detract from the overall beauty of the film consists in a few brief scenes where the computer-generated special effects should have been better. Carelessness is the word — the vast majority of scenes containing CGI are well executed.
Fancy kid stuff from France, not quite ready for the global market
In this breezily far-fetched mixture of Mary Poppins and Lara Croft, popular novelist Adèle Blanc-Sec (Louise Bourgoin) must save a crazy expert who has brought a pterodactyl to life, so he can bring an Egyptian mummy back to life, and it can in turn use ancient magic to revive her sister, who has been dead or in a coma for four years following a bizarre tennis accident. This is a comic imbroglio adapted from the 1970’s graphic novels of Jacques Tardi and brought to the screen by big Euro producer Luc Besson. The humor is a bit heavy-handed, the early twentieth-century feel is hardly precise and Bourgoin’s behavior lacks finesse, but Besson has a gift for spectacle. Matthieu Amalric and Jean-Paul Rouve are also featured. Adèle rides the pterodactyl around like characters in Avatar. Mastering your pet monster and turning it into a means of rapid transportation is becoming a commonplace video-game-into-movie gimmick. There’s a handsome young scientist madly in love with Adèle, who’s got no use for him. Luckily he meets her sister after she’s been revived by the mummy. The movie’s excessive enthusiasm for makeup is revealed in Amalric’s unrecognizable look as the evil Dieuleveult, and Adèle’s series of disguises as a fat cook, nun, doctor, etc. visiting the prison vainly trying to liberate Professor Ménard. Fancy kid stuff from France, not likely to translate well to the global market but further evidence of the French skill at complicated production. Seen in Paris on opening day in April 2010 at the classic old cinema on the Rue de Babylone, La Pagode.
Original Language fr
Runtime 1 hr 47 min (107 min)
Budget 25000000
Revenue 34100000
Status Released
Rated PG
Genre Action, Adventure, Comedy
Director Luc Besson
Writer Luc Besson, Jacques Tardi
Actors Louise Bourgoin, Mathieu Amalric, Gilles Lellouche
Country France, United States
Awards 3 nominations
Production Company N/A
Website N/A
Sound Mix Dolby Digital, DTS
Aspect Ratio 2.35 : 1
Camera Arricam LT, Cooke S4 Lenses, Arricam ST, Cooke S4 Lenses
Laboratory Laboratoires Franay Tirages Cinematographiques (LTC), Paris, France
Film Length 2.95 m (Portugal, 35 mm)
Negative Format 35 mm (Kodak Vision2 50D 5201, Vision3 250D 5207, Vision3 500T 5219)
Cinematographic Process Digital Intermediate (master format), Super 35 (3-perf) (source format)
Printed Film Format 35 mm (anamorphic)