If the reception to Ewan McGregor’s American Pastoral has shown us anything, it’s this: those who adapt one of the great living authors would be best-advised to go small or, at the very least, head into their endeavor with a bit of experience. Benoît Jacquot is doing both with a big-screen take on Don DeLillo‘s slim and, in all honesty, little-loved 2001 novel The Body Artist. It’d previously been in the hands of Luca Guadagnino, who’d, at various points, cast the likes of Isabelle Huppert, Sigourney Weaver, Denis Lavant, and David Cronenberg, the one man who’s already taken a DeLillo text to the big screen. (Game 6 doesn’t quite count, though it’s a Cosmopolis first draft nevertheless worth seeking out.)
Now titled Never Ever (À jamais in its native tongue), it’s arriving under his supervision, with the none-too-small help of Mathieu Amalric and,...
Now titled Never Ever (À jamais in its native tongue), it’s arriving under his supervision, with the none-too-small help of Mathieu Amalric and,...
- 9/13/2016
- by Nick Newman
- The Film Stage
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