Films, like novels are often admired for their reach rather than their grasp and many filmmakers either through ambition or through hubris have struggled to bring to the screen supposedly ‘unfilmmable’ novels. The effects can be uneven, flawed, equally they can sometimes be admirable and lead the essence of the novel into unimagined dimensions…
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American Psycho
A sinister & satirical portrayal of an 80s yuppie turned serial killer. Mary Harron’s adaptation of the novel by Bret Easton Ellis becomes even more…
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La Captive
A tale of obsessive love, possession, and desire inspired by Proust's La Prisonnière.
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Bring the Family/ Where the Wild Things Are
Spike Jonze adapts Maurice Sendak’s classic story of self-discovery. When Max, a boisterous nine-year-old, is berated by his mother and sent to bed, he travels…
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Norwegian Wood
Based on Murakami’s 1987 best-selling but complex novel about forbidden love, despair and vinyl records, Franco-Vietnamese film-maker Tran Anh Hung does wonders in capturing the…
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The Saragossa Manuscript
Wojciech Has’ adaptation of Polish novelist Jan Potocki’s magnum opus is largely a light-hearted work, laden with warm comedy, ribald drama, Gothic atmospherics and unforgettable…
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Naked Lunch
In this adaptation of William S. Burroughs’s hallucinatory, once-thought-unfilmable novel, Cronenberg follows exterminator & drug addict Bill Lee as he plunges into the nightmarish Interzone.