See the Movie, Read the Book
Festival is a great time for local film lovers, but you can’t spend all your
time at the theatre. For those brief
moments between screenings, consider reading these books and stories. Each one was the starting point for a film at
this year’s festival.
One of the gala events of this
year's festival is the premiere screening of Barney's Version on Sunday
September 12. In development for 12
years, the film of this Canadian novel has finally been completed. In case you don’t make it to the screening,
reading the Mordecai Richler novel is a great alternative.
Tamara Drewe, a modern comedy of
manners is based on a comic strip by Posy Simmonds. The strips were collected in a graphic novel, also titled Tamara
Drewe.
The story was inspired by Thomas Hardy's novel Far From the Madding Crowd. Two books added
together to make one movie is a perfect equation for readers.
Speaking of things mathematical, the
Italian film The Solitude of Prime Numbers is a based on an award-winning
novel by Paolo Giordano. It follows
the story of two scarred misfits whose lives intersect but never fully
connect. Written by a physicist, this novel
was published to both critical and popular acclaim. A best-seller in
languages.
Danny Boyle’s film 127 Hours tells
the story of Aron Ralston’s struggle to survive after becoming pinned between a
boulder and canyon wall while hiking alone in a remote part of
Ralston’s extraordinary actions are documented in his autobiography
Between a Rock and a Hard Place.
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