CRITICAL – The novelist and filmmaker adapts the fate of the Balzacian heroine in a delicately feminist vein. A way to modernize the novel, while offering Olivier Gourmet a role of avaricious patriarch that will be remembered. To adapt is to betray, they say. The successful writer and filmmaker Marc Dugain, to whom we owe […]
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Cinema: when Dugain le Balzacien adapts Eugenie Grandet on the big screen
CRITICAL – This restitution of a classic of French literature is a huge success. Marc Dugain is an astonishing man. It’s Midas at XXIe century. In his early life, he transformed dying companies into successful businesses. When he took up the pen, he became, from his first novel – The Officers’ Room, Lattès, 1999 – […]