Adaptation.
Dir: Spike Jonze
USA, 2002, English, 114mins, DCP
Cast: Nicolas Cage, Meryl Streep, Chris Cooper, Tilda Swinton
Hired to adapt Susan Orlean’s nonfiction book The Orchid Thief, Charlie Kaufman suffers writer’s block and transforms his script into a freewheeling fantasy about the difficulties he encountered crafting the screenplay alongside his fictitious twin brother Donald. A hilarious yet profound meditation on the creative process, Adaptation. also presents us with Kaufman’s typically neurotic worldview, as his tortured on-screen persona struggles to find artistic success and make human connections, while everything comes easily to his worldly, simple-minded brother Donald. Jonze’s gift for comedy keeps proceedings buoyant, preventing any lapses into morbid self-pity.
Berlin International Film Festival: Jury Grand Prix
Academy Awards: Best Supporting Actor
8/1 (Sun): Film talk with Bryan Chang
Screening:
In-theatre Screening
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PREMIERE Elements (Venue)
Hong Kong Arts Centre Louis Koo Cinema (Venue)
HK Science Museum Lecture Hall
Hong Kong Film Archive
K11 Art House
The Metroplex
Festival Grand Cinema
the sky
MCL Telford Cinema
Tai Kwun
MOViE MOViE
CINE FAN ONLINE
EMP Cinemas iSQUARE (Venue)
M+ Cinema (Venue)
EMP Cinemas Times Square (Venue)
The Grand Cinema
Broadway Hollywood
Cine Moko
Chinese Subtitles
Category III
Post-screening discussion with the director
Director and/or actor(s) will meet the audience
Post-screening talk
Full House
Introduction