Adaptation Tag Archive
Dracula A Love Tale
When you hear about Luc Besson’s latest film Dracula A Love Tale there’s something you might be thinking: Do we really need another Dracula adaptation? It’s the most adapted novel ever written, there’s a version of Bram Stoker’s vampiric Count for every decade since the 30s and most years since the 60s. Its popularity doesn’t dwindle. Besson’s Dracula paints a picture of a love-stupid and chaotic young Prince (Caleb Landry Jones, Antiviral), who goes to war, loses the love of his life […]
Piercing – EIFF 2018 Review
Back in 2016 Nicolas Pesce wowed with his dark debut The Eyes of My Mother, now, two years later, he follows up with quirky
Rage – EIFF 2017
Following in the footsteps of complex murder dramas like Memories of Murder and I Saw the Devil, Rage, from Japanese director Sang-il Lee, has a tense yet tender approach to traditional thrillers. In it, three seemingly unrelated stories of love and loss slowly draw together around a vicious murder.
The Man Who Was Thursday – EIFF 2016
Adapted from the classic 1908 existential novel by G. K. Chesterton, Balazs Juszt’s directorial debut is a heady thriller. Splitting time between a fascist-period attempt on Mussolini’s life and a contemporary plot to assassinate the pope, The Man Who Was Thursday takes place in the darker backstreets of faith.
Macbeth Unhinged – EIFF 2016
The directorial debut from Scottish actor Angus Macfayden (Braveheart, Saw II) Macbeth Unhinged is a courageous, but faulted, reinterpretation of the timeless Shakespeare play.
