The Extraordinary Adventures Of Adele Blanc-sec -2010 ✭ ❲ORIGINAL❳

(2010) is a visually lavish, "gloriously goofy" adaptation of Jacques Tardi’s legendary French comic books. Set in a "gaslamp fantasy" version of 1912 Paris, the film follows the titular heroine—a sharp-tongued, cigar-smoking novelist and journalist—as she navigates a world where ancient Egyptian magic and prehistoric monsters collide with early 20th-century sensibilities.

Set in Belle Époque Paris, the film follows (Louise Bourgoin), a bestselling adventure novelist who is far more competent than any police officer or professor she meets. When her sister becomes comatose after a freak accident involving a mummy’s thorn, Adèle travels to Egypt to rob a tomb for the only cure: a mummified doctor. The Extraordinary Adventures Of Adele Blanc-sec -2010

At its heart, the film belongs to Louise Bourgoin’s Adèle Blanc-Sec. In an era obsessed with tortured, muscle-bound saviors, Adèle is a revolutionary: a bestselling novelist, a fearless Egyptologist, a shameless self-promoter, and a woman who treats life-threatening peril as a minor inconvenience on par with a delayed train. She wears sharp suits, wields a pearl-handled revolver, and possesses the unshakable confidence of someone who knows she’s the smartest person in any room—including the one containing a live pterodactyl. (2010) is a visually lavish, "gloriously goofy" adaptation