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I came to that movie with a good feeling : the trailer is good, the actress is great, the picture is not bad, the film-maker has a good reputation, the film had a price in cannes, the novel is a classic of french litterature.
The "contemporary" adaptation of a 17th century novel is always a good idea, because without the costumes, some details of the old times appear differently and helps us to see what really changed during theese centuries.
Mr. Scorcese's style and panache is elaborate in his film adaptation of Edith Wharton's moving novel of a forbidden love and the desideration between the two.
I bought the novel soon after and read it until the pages fell out.
In addition to directing, Julie Gavras also collaborated with Arnaud Cathrine on the script which they adapted from a novel by Italian novelist Domitilla Calamai.
I am fully aware that no film adaptation of a novel can remain completely faithful to its source.
However, it is possible for a film to capture the message and tone of a novel by keeping true to its narrative.
Most of the story was heavily filtered for TV, leaving little but the bare skeletal remains of the novel.
This film is a classic example of an arty film on a hallowed novel which gets brilliant reviews but is unapproachable and dull to the majority of the movie going public.
Unless you have read the novel and are au fait with the subject matter, even the intelligent viewer will be left bemused and quite frankly bored to tears.
This movie was a well filmed work of art based on a Japanese novel.
This film made major concessions to political correctness in its portrayal of the Indians, who are depicted in a considerably more flattering light here than they are in Brian Moore's novel.
After seeing Danny Boyle's masterpiece, Trainspotting (1996) and reading the source novel (by Alex Garland), I decided to give it another chance.
Indeed, the sequence in the hospital seems to be a clear reference to Truffaut's film version of the Cornell Woolrich novel.
The semi-autobiographical novel he is writing pulls together the story and the emotions and hopes of the characters and introduces ideas that enable them to heal some of their hurt.
BBC readapted the Sheridan Le Fanu novel as "The Dark Angel" for its classic novel Christmas offering in 1987.
Welles's character Mr. Clay, taken from a novel by Isak Denison, probably doesn't have any good stories to tell, and more than likely doesn't like hearing them.
This story was also brilliantly presented in the Newberry Award-winning children's novel, "The Secret of the Andes," by Ann Nolan Clark, about a young boy who is the last remaining pure Incan, living in the Andes with his spiritual guide and teacher, who goes on a journey of discovery into Cuzco, to find out what contributed to the eradication of his race.
Bret Easton Ellis' novel is turned into a good looking but utterly pointless film (much like his novels).
The movie could have been longer, it is interesting what was cut from the novel.
McAdams and Bana are both beautiful and amazing in Director Robert Schwentke's "The Time Traveler's Wife" based on the bestselling novel by Audrey Niffenegger.
Based on the classic novel by CS Lewis, four London children are sent to a professor's country home in order for protection during World War II.
For those of you who have read the novel or seen the English movie with same title "Love Story", don't watch this movie.
Somehow, I just can't imagine the great H.G. Wells writing a novel that is so inane.
While this story concept is by no means a novel one, writer Ligiah Villalobos has provided a script that avoids taking sides, but instead concentrates on creating wholly believable characters caught in the web of immigration - from both sides of the wall.
If one considers the love stories of all times, beside the undeniable classics by greatest playwrights, inevitably comes to mind the name of Alexandre Dumas (fils) who, in 1852, wrote a novel THE LADY OF THE CAMELLIAS.
The remains of a giant worm are uncovered at a Scottish village, and horror and hilarity ensues, or so hoped the filmmakers of this camp based on a Bram Stoker novel.
By contrast, only a negligible minority will first see a movie, discover that it is a filmed novel, and therefore read the book.
Gabor von Vaszery's novel 'Monpti' is merely one example among many others.
I have carefully studied every difference between the movie and the novel.
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