Postby PfifltriggPi » Tue Apr 30, 2019 1:11 pm
I just realized I forgot to put my review of the film version of Une pièce montée here. To recap, for those who do not know, the original book is a 2007 novel telling the story of a bourgeois marriage from the perspective of numerous attendees, and is absolutely amazing.
The movie, on the other hand, is absolutely something, but amazing is far from the term. Had the book not existed, and had it just been a stand-alone film, it would still have been stupid, but the contrast to the book was so sharp, that it felt even worse. Without spoiling too much for those who have not read the book, the changed almost every character to a degree, and completely re-wrote some of the best in much worse ways. The plot was changed so as to not even make sense, striking lines were put in the mouths of different people, which resulted in their force being lost and, all in all it was so re-written that it could not really be called an adaptation of the book.
Every now and then, I come across an "adaptation" of a work of literature which is so horrible I feel personally insulted. This was one of those cases. I wanted to scream. I did, in fact, scream several times while watching. I ended up having to stop it halfway, come back and finish it. By the end I was not sure if I wanted to off myself, or hunt down the people responsible for the film and scream at them. I ended up hand-writing several pages in feedback for my teacher and was still fuming about it for days if not weeks after. (Even just writing this makes me surprisingly upset.)
Edit: The novel was published in 2007, not 2006.
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PfifltriggPi on Wed May 01, 2019 12:13 am, edited 1 time in total.
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