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Adèle Haenel (born 11 February 1989) is a French actress. She is the recipient of several accolades, including two César Awards from seven nominations and one Lumières Award from two nominations. Haenel began her career as a child actress, making her film debut with Les Diables (2002) at the age of 12, and quickly rose to prominence in the French entertainment industry as a teenager. She received her first César Award nomination for her performance in Water Lilies (2007), which also marked the beginning of her long professional and personal relationship with director Céline Sciamma. In 2014, Haenel received her first César Award for her supporting role in Suzanne, and in 2015 won the César Award for Best Actress for Love at First Fight. She continued to garner recognition for her performances in BPM (Beats per Minute) (2017), The Trouble with You (2018) and Portrait of a Lady on Fire (2019). Description above from the Wikipedia article Adèle Haenel, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Antigone is the daughter of Oedipus and Jocasta, rulers of Thebes. After the suicide of Jocasta and the exile of Oedipus, the two brothers of Antigone, Eteocle and Polynice killed each other for the throne of Thebes. Creon, brother of Jocasta is - as such - the new king and decided to offer burial only to Etéocle and not to Polynice, described as thug and traitor. He warned by an edict that anyone who dares to bury the renegade's body will be punished with death. Nobody dares to brave the forbidden and the corpse of Polynice is abandoned to the sun and scavengers. Only Antigone refuses this situation. Despite the prohibition of her uncle, she goes several times to the body of his brother and tries to cover it with soil. Ismene, his sister, does not want to accompany him because she is afraid of Creon and death. Antigone is caught by the king's guards. Creon is obliged to apply the sentence of death to Antigone. After a long debate with her uncle on the purpose of existence, she is condemned to be buried alive. But just as the tomb is going to be sealed, Creon learns that his son, Hémon, fiancé of Antigone, has let himself be shut up with the one he loves. When the tomb is reopened, Antigone hangs with her belt and Hemon, spitting in her father's face, opens her belly with her sword. Despaired by the disappearance of the son she adored, Eurydice, Creon's wife, cuts her throat.
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