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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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    The Government of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region provides funding support to the project through the Film Development Fund.
    The funding support bears no relationship whatsoever to the content of, or views expressed in this project.

    The Government of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region provides funding support to the project through the Film Development Fund.
    The funding support bears no relationship whatsoever to the content of, or views expressed in this project.