Gilbert Adair

Gilbert Adair

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

死亡 : 2011-12-08

略歴

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

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The Carer
Writer
Dorottya is a young Hungarian actress with a burning desire: to make it on the English stage. Legendary actor, Sir Michael Gifford suffers from an incurable disease, and has one desire: be left alone. When Dorottya becomes his carer they both hope their wish will be fulfilled.
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.
クリムト
Writer
A portrait of Austrian artist Gustav Klimt whose lavish, sexual paintings came to symbolize the art nouveau style of the late 19th and early 20th century.
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.
ドリーマーズ
Writer
1968年、五月革命に揺れるパリ。アメリカ人留学生マシューは、映画フリークの学生たちによるデモの最中に魅惑的な双子の姉弟イザベルとテオに出会い、急速に親密になっていく...。
ドリーマーズ
Screenplay
1968年、五月革命に揺れるパリ。アメリカ人留学生マシューは、映画フリークの学生たちによるデモの最中に魅惑的な双子の姉弟イザベルとテオに出会い、急速に親密になっていく...。
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