Tag Archives: inspired by a novel

love, mourning & love again (film: La délicatesse – David & Stéphane Foenkinos, 2011)

Posted on December 13, 2024 by admin

‘La délicatesse‘ (2011) is a kind of experiment. It is very rare for a novelist to fully take on the screen adaptation of his own novel, writing the script and also directing the film. David Foenkinos, one of the most … Continue reading →

Posted in movies | Tagged Audrey Tautou, David Foenkinos, film about love, François Damiens, French cinema, inspired by a novel, La délicatesse, melodrama, romantic drama, Stéphane Foenkinos | Leave a comment

from Simenon to Hitchcock (film: Maigret tend un piège – Jean Delannoy, 1957)

Posted on December 11, 2024 by admin

Jean Delannoy lived to be a hundred years old and directed some 40 feature films in a career spanning over six decades. He was a contemporary of classical French cinema, of the directors of the New Wave and those who … Continue reading →

Posted in movies | Tagged Annie Girardot, detective movie, films about police, Georges Simenon, inspired by a novel, Jean Delannoy, Jean Gabin, Lino Ventura, Maigret tend un piège, Michel Audiard | Leave a comment

dangerous relationships (film: Notes on a Scandal – Richard Eyre, 2006)

Posted on November 23, 2024 by admin

I’m not sure why the creators of the film ‘Notes on a Scandal‘ (2006) insisted on adding a disclaimer at the end of the credits that claims that ‘any resemblance to real people or events is coincidental’. The disclaimer is … Continue reading →

Posted in movies | Tagged British cinema, Cate Blanchett, inspired by a novel, inspired by true events, Judy Dench, Notes on a Scandal, Richard Eyre, social drama, Zoë Heller | Leave a comment

the magic mountain (film: Picnic at Hanging Rock – Peter Weir, 1975)

Posted on November 6, 2024 by admin

I very rarely re-watch movies. I made an exception today, watching again after almost half a century ‘Picnic at Hanging Rock‘, the 1975 film directed by the Australian Peter Weir, about a decade before he began an international career that … Continue reading →

Posted in movies | Tagged Australian movies, coming of age, epoch movie, films about magic, Gheorghe Zamfir, inspired by a novel, inspired by true events, Peter Weir, Picnic at Hanging Rock, Russell Boyd, thriller movies | Leave a comment

three men, one woman and many guns (film: Appaloosa – Ed Harris, 2008)

Posted on November 5, 2024 by admin

Ed Harris, an actor I admire a lot, has stepped behind the camera only twice so far, to sit in the film director’s chair. His third film is now in pre-production. The second one, which I saw last night, is … Continue reading →

Posted in movies | Tagged actor who became film director, Appaloosa, Ed Harris, Hollywood movies, inspired by a novel, Jeremy Irons, Renee Zellweger, Viggo Mortensen, western movies | Leave a comment

from narco-thriller to musical soap opera and back (film: Emilia Pérez – Jacques Audiard, 2024)

Posted on November 4, 2024 by admin

Jacques Audiard has never disappointed me before. Many of his films have as their main theme (or one of the main themes) the search for identity and changes of identity. Many of the memorable characters in his films search for … Continue reading →

Posted in movies | Tagged Emilia Pérez, gangster movies, inspired by a novel, Jacques Audiard, Karla Sofía Gascón, musical movies, soap operas, thriller, Zoe Saldana | Leave a comment

twilight of an epoch (film: Un amour de Swann – Volker Schlöndorff, 1984)

Posted on October 26, 2024 by admin

One of the most useless intellectual exercises, in my opinion, is to compare a book and a movie, even if the movie is inspired by the book or is an adaptation. Literature and cinema are as different arts as dance … Continue reading →

Posted in movies | Tagged Alain Delon, epoch movie, Fanny Ardant, inspired by a novel, international movies production, Jeremy Irons, Ornella Muti, Peter Brook, Un amour de Swann, Volker Schlöndorff | Leave a comment

the breaking of an ordinary family (film: Ordinary People – Robert Redford, 1980)

Posted on October 23, 2024 by admin

Americans don’t really use the expression ‘cinema de papa’, invented by critics and French filmmakers followers of the New Wave to define everything that characterizes the film-making ways of previous generations, from which they wanted to move away. It would … Continue reading →

Posted in movies | Tagged Donald Sutherland, Elizabeth McGovern, family drama, first film for a director, Hollywood movies, inspired by a novel, Judd Hirsch, Mary Tyler Moore, Robert Redford, Timothy Hutton | Leave a comment

Poirot haunted (film: A Haunting in Venice – Kenneth Branagh, 2023)

Posted on September 2, 2024 by admin

Kenneth Branagh continues his series of adaptations of Agatha Christie’s novels and seems to feel quite comfortable in the skin of Hercule Poirot and in the position of director of the films that bring him to the big screen. The … Continue reading →

Posted in movies | Tagged A Haunting in Venice, detective movie, inspired by a novel, international movies production, Kenneth Branagh, Michael Green, Michelle Yeoh, psychological thriller, Tina Fey | Leave a comment

frozen passions (film: Smilla’s Sense of Snow – Bille August, 1997)

Posted on August 27, 2024 by admin

Director Bille August‘s ‘Smilla’s Sense of Snow‘ (1997) should have had every reason to be a standout film. The script brings a successful novel by Peter Høeg to the big screen. The story belongs to a cinematographic genre – techno-thriller … Continue reading →

Posted in movies | Tagged Ann Biderman, Bille August, Danish cinema, Gabriel Byrne, inspired by a novel, Julia Ormond, Peter Høeg, Scandinavian thriller, Smilla's Sense of Snow, techno-thriller | Leave a comment