“Romantic love will be the last delusion of the old order”.
One of the advantages of being an avid reader and a literature scholar is the chance of living a million lives. The incredible charm of books is all here, in the unique opportunity they give you. Moreover, reading works of fiction from other countries gives you something even more special: you learn about other worlds, cultures and traditions without moving. When literature gets to the silver screen, further magic happens: what you’ve imagined becomes real; characters are given a body, a voice, gestures, and you are there, trying to make the world you created in your mind fit with what the film is showing.
Adapting a literary work for the cinema is always challenging: the director measures himself with his/her own art and with the author who wrote the novel. Things get more complicated when someone has adapted the same novel before you. It must have been difficult for Joe…
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A New Writer On The Block 