~ Windmills.
Not long ago I read The diabolical . Behind this rather catchy title, a collection of stories signed Barbey d'Aurevilly. The announcement relatively catchy France 2, which proposed an adaptation of happiness in the crime, has naturally stirred my curiosity and I am a week ago, sitting quietly in front of my TV to see what it was.
quickly recall the overall plot of this story. A doctor arrives in a small town dying, a bastion of aristocrats with an uncertain future. Only activity of the city: an armory where officiates a strange teacher. Hauteclaire (not Claire) Stassin, lovely young woman and impassive, teaches fencing before disappearing mysteriously. We learn eventually qu'éprise Savigny, she was hired as a maid in his household, under the nose of his wife. The couple manages to kill the countess before living perfect happiness, in spite of their crime ...
Prior to rebel (but it will come), I would say a few words about the concept of adapting a literary work: quickly expose my point of view of history to base my critique. I do not belong to those who howl at the slightest cut or any change cinema (or television) and book are two different mediums and it is quite normal to make some changes in use so as not to be found with infinite films. That is not the problem. However, I consider (and we may be able to challenge me on this point) that when a film like this from a literary work, there must be a little bit true to the About the Author in mind that he wanted to infuse his work. It is a matter of intellectual honesty: that those who wish to learn a script and changing the meaning indicate that their implementation is "freely adapted" or "inspired." I do not demand much in the end. What was not my surprise when I saw a program claiming to be serious, entitled "Fiction nineteenth century "And therefore making clear reference to the sources of stories, this Happiness in the crime of that way ...
Presented as sulfur and provocative, this TV movie seems paradoxically much less scandalous than the original, reinforcing the public in his opinions, making a new "Evil" is a far different, intended to amuse the public. Among the factors that have prevented me to enjoy this film, yet elegantly done, here:
- The whole atmosphere of the new based on the impassive Hauteclaire. Weapon Master, the young woman hides her face constantly, whether behind a fencing mask or a veil. Impossible for the reader '(see his face, much less its expressions. The film about a young woman presenting him surprisingly close to the men, teaching fencing in the open. And it will be anything but impassive as it treats the viewer a little smile every second. yet very important dimension in the news item that Barbey insists that more heavily, impassive, the inaccessibility of the character are completely overshadowed. Hauteclaire was a sphinx and a devilish. As the relationship between the woman and Savigny, the choice of writer seems problematic. Where there was a real sexual indeterminacy (" Strange! In bringing this beautiful couple, it was the woman who had muscle, and the man who had the nerve! ) film shows a passive man, guided by a woman dangerous and harmful. It is rather curious that, given a new (and book) from which the moral condemnation is absent, showing a couple evil, we take great care to show us who they are condemned and seems the most monstrous.
Finally, the adaptation of Happiness in the crime seems wise. This involves reinforcing the public's expectations: it thus makes a stylish movie in costumes, it exacerbates the character of the doctor, free-thinker and confident in scientific developments. Instead, it will erase anything that could interfere, even if he very much present in the new home: sadism, murder premeditated and carried out long-term sexual indeterminacy, lack of morality. Barbey classic rendering, Barbey adapted to bourgeois taste. In this sense, Hauteclaire was a sphinx, a diabolic . Claire is more than a femme fatale. Damage.
Image: Félicien Rops-Happiness in Crime
Presented as sulfur and provocative, this TV movie seems paradoxically much less scandalous than the original, reinforcing the public in his opinions, making a new "Evil" is a far different, intended to amuse the public. Among the factors that have prevented me to enjoy this film, yet elegantly done, here:
- The whole atmosphere of the new based on the impassive Hauteclaire. Weapon Master, the young woman hides her face constantly, whether behind a fencing mask or a veil. Impossible for the reader '(see his face, much less its expressions. The film about a young woman presenting him surprisingly close to the men, teaching fencing in the open. And it will be anything but impassive as it treats the viewer a little smile every second. yet very important dimension in the news item that Barbey insists that more heavily, impassive, the inaccessibility of the character are completely overshadowed. Hauteclaire was a sphinx and a devilish. As the relationship between the woman and Savigny, the choice of writer seems problematic. Where there was a real sexual indeterminacy (" Strange! In bringing this beautiful couple, it was the woman who had muscle, and the man who had the nerve! ) film shows a passive man, guided by a woman dangerous and harmful. It is rather curious that, given a new (and book) from which the moral condemnation is absent, showing a couple evil, we take great care to show us who they are condemned and seems the most monstrous.
Finally, the adaptation of Happiness in the crime seems wise. This involves reinforcing the public's expectations: it thus makes a stylish movie in costumes, it exacerbates the character of the doctor, free-thinker and confident in scientific developments. Instead, it will erase anything that could interfere, even if he very much present in the new home: sadism, murder premeditated and carried out long-term sexual indeterminacy, lack of morality. Barbey classic rendering, Barbey adapted to bourgeois taste. In this sense, Hauteclaire was a sphinx, a diabolic . Claire is more than a femme fatale. Damage.
Image: Félicien Rops-Happiness in Crime
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