The script is adapted from a novel. The brilliant thing about this terrific film (IMHO) is that all the essential things between Jean and Véronique are left unsaid (like emotions, like the options or impossibility of a common future) - how does this work in the novel? Right now, I cannot imagine that a novel could handle this in the same subtle and delicate manner as the acting and directing of the movie does.
shareRead it! And if you already have, let us know what you think.
shareI can think of "Mademoiselle Chambon" as an opposite-sex version of "The Bridges of Madison County" (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0112579/), which is based on the same-named novel by Robert James Waller.
I read Waller's novel and I can say, that the movie was far better than the book. In the book it was hard to comprehend the emotions, because they were described in written form. There is an idiom saying: Writtenness leads to mental clarity. This mental clarity was in contrast to the vagueness and subconsciousness of emotions.
I doubt that a novel could handle all that in the same subtle and delicate manner, too.
Agree about "Bridges" and also "Brief Encounter"
shareI wonder if he is also a builder in the novel or has some other occupation?
Because why replace a window in a rental property?