Adele, Xavier Dolan team up on Hello music video

The first time Xavier Dolan heard Adele's powerful balladHello, his head was instantly filled with the black-and-white, nostalgia-filled images of long-lost love depicted in the new video the chart-topping singer unveiled early Friday morning.

"Aesthetically, we were just on the same wavelength from the beginning," the award-winning Quebec filmmaker told CBC News early Friday.

"She really trusted me. I trusted her. It was beautiful," he said of their collaboration for Hello, which is the first track off Adele's much-anticipated comeback album 25.

"Artistically and emotionally, we just went full-throttle becausewe trusted each other."

Shot in Quebec earlier this fall in Canada, so Dolan could be surrounded by the regular crew and artists he is most comfortableworkingwith Hello sees Adele travel to a musty country house, where she recalls a former lover.

"Assoon as I heard it, I saw the country.I saw an old house, I saw Adele coming in and going down memory lane, making phone calls to someone from her past," Dolan said, describinghis first time hearing the track in London, after Adele and her record label sought him out.

"And then us, having a glimpse into those images that would be reminiscent of a long lost relationship. It was just what I saw immediately when I heard the song."

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Dolan was asked by Adele's record label to make the video for the first single for her album, 25. So he accepted!

Dolan also suggested American actorTristanWilds, known for roles in TV'sThe Wireand the recent90210remake,to play thesinger's former flame.

"All of his scenes were shot without Adelebecause she had to leave:she was on rehearsal in London," Dolan noted.

"Their paths, like, crossed for maybe two or three hours.But that day, we shot until, like, 3 a.m.with Tristan. I was sort of his Adele. He was talking to me. He was such a good sport. We improvised together [and] hejust dived right into it."

Adele's record label, XL Recordings, announced Thursdaythat 25would be released Nov. 20 and that Dolan haddirected the music video for lead trackHello.

Dolan, the award-winning filmmaker behind J'ai Tu Ma Mre (I Killed My Mother), Heartbeats,Laurence Anyways, Tom at the Farmand Mommy, is known for his sumptuous use of music in his movies.

In 2013, he directed acontroversial video for French alt-rock group Indochine's song College Boy, in which he depictedthe increasingly violent bullying and the eventual crucifixion andshooting of a teen boy.

Teasing fans with tidbits

Adele has been teasing fans with tidbits about her new album, 25, all week first airing a mysterious ad featuring a song snippeton British TV and then posting a revealing essay about her state of mind during the album's creation.

Other details about the anticipated release have trickled out, with Billboard reporting earlierthat the album includes tracks written byDanger Mouse, Ryan Tedder and Canadian songwriterTobias Jesso Jr.

She gave Hello its official premiere Friday morning during a segment on BBC Radio 1.

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Adele's last album was 2011's 21, whichsold more than 30 millionalbums worldwideand won six Grammy Awards,including album of the year.The British singer followsa pattern of naming her albums for her age at the time she created them: herdebut album was 19.

Adelegave birth to her first son, Angelo, in October 2012 and subsequentlywon an Oscar, Grammy,Golden Globe and Brit Award for her James Bond theme to 2012'sSkyfall.