Gilbert Adair

Gilbert Adair

Nacimiento : 1944-12-29, Edinburgh, Scotland, UK

Muerte : 2011-12-08

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Gilbert Adair was a Scottish novelist, poet, film critic and journalist. He was critically most famous for the "fiendish" translation of Georges Perec's postmodern novel A Void, in which the letter e is not used, but was more widely known for the films adapted from his novels, including Love and Death on Long Island (1997) and The Dreamers (2003)

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Gilbert Adair

Películas

El último acto
Writer
El legendario actor Sir Michael Gifford vive recluido en su casa de campo. Desde hace años sufre una enfermedad degenerativa que intenta ocultar al público. En otro tiempo apasionado y mujeriego, Gifford se ha convertido en una persona intratable que se niega a aceptar su condición. Su hija, Sophia, y su antigua amante y ahora ama de llaves, Milly, se desesperan buscando enfermeras. Hasta que aparece Dorottya, una joven cuidadora húngara, que secretamente aspira a convertirse en actriz. A pesar del temperamento de Sir Michael y de la desconfianza de su familia, el amor que ambos comparten por Shakespeare les ayudará a afrontar un último acto.
A Closed Book
Writer
Jane appears to be ideal: attractive, intelligent, unruffled by her employer's abrupt eccentricities. But, gradually, we come aware that Jane has another agenda. Incrementally, Sir Paul's familiar surroundings are altered. His housekeeper is diverted away, strange things happen around the house and he becomes increasingly dependent on his new assistant.
Klimt
Writer
Retrato del artista austríaco Gustav Klimt, cuyos suntuosos y eróticos cuadros marcaron el estilo Art Nouveau de finales del siglo XIX y principios del XX.
Cinema, Sex, Politics: Bertolucci Makes “The Dreamers”
Self
The making of The Dreamers, its background and relation to the May 1968 student riots in Paris.
Soñadores
Writer
París, 1968. Isabelle y su hermano Theo, solos en la ciudad mientras sus padres están de viaje, invitan a su apartamento a Matthew, un joven estudiante americano al que han conocido en un cine. Una vez en casa establecen unas reglas para conocerse mutuamente, explorando emociones y erotismo a través de una serie de juegos extremadamente arriesgados.
Soñadores
Screenplay
París, 1968. Isabelle y su hermano Theo, solos en la ciudad mientras sus padres están de viaje, invitan a su apartamento a Matthew, un joven estudiante americano al que han conocido en un cine. Una vez en casa establecen unas reglas para conocerse mutuamente, explorando emociones y erotismo a través de una serie de juegos extremadamente arriesgados.
Love and Death on Long Island
Novel
Giles De'Ath is a widower who doesn't like anything modern. He goes to movies and falls in love with film star, Ronnie Bostock. He then investigates everything about the movie and Ronnie. After that he travels to Long Island city where Ronnie lives and meets him, pretending that Ronnie is a great actor and that's why Giles admires him.
The Territory
Writer
A small group of well-to-do vacationers go on a hiking trip into the woods. Foolishly unprepared to deal with Mother Nature and their situation, they wander around lost for days and weeks, becoming more and more fatigued, hungry, and desperate. A brief encounter with a pair of epicureans on a bridge fails to garner them any of the gluttons' feast due to a language barrier. Eventually their party begins to die, and the survivors ration their meat among them, attaching a religious-type ritual to its dispensation.
The Sorceror's Apprentice
A thriller in which the characters are Latin-American exiles living in Paris. It is also a comedy about artists who play at revolution rather than actually participate in one