If only Christopher Nolan had listened to James Joyce. Instead, he transforms Homer’s fluid, ambiguous 'Odyssey' into a rigid monument of masculine pathos, plot-driven drama, and sensory overload.
Andy Weir's novel "Project Hail Mary" is transformed into a great science fiction film by Phil Lord and Chris Miller, who trade literary and scientific precision for emotion and pace
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Guillermo del Toro's Frankenstein adaptation is more than just a remake: it is a liturgical reading of Mary Shelley's myth - a poetic affirmation of the power of storytelling, the vulnerability of life and the humanity of the monster
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Dag Johan Haugerud @ Berlinale 2025
With his Oslo trilogy "Love", "Dreams" and "Sex", Dag Johan Haugerud has created a cinematic, literary and sociological marvel that is as intelligent as it is moving
"The Peasants" transforms the Nobel Prize-winning novel by Władysław Reymont into an artistically exciting but fundamentally disappointing drama of a young 19th century peasant girl's self-empowerment
Michael Kumpfmüller imagines Franz Kafka's last year of life with Dora Diamant in "The Glory of Life" - the film adaptation is disappointing, but the mini-series "Kafka" by Daniel Kehlmann and David Schalko is inspiring
Jade Halley Bartlett's literary and erotic thriller "Miller's Girl" is a bizarre and always surprising young-adult melange in which the supposedly lame world of books meets furious Tik-Tok teens
After the heavy symbolism and stylization of his last two films, Christian Petzold's roundelay about art and love is almost light and even humorous. The tragedy almost becomes a minor matter.