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After training as an architect, Marc Levy later turned to writing novels, which to date have been translated into 41 languages. He is currently in San Sebastián to form part of the New Directors Jury, but is also taking advantage of his stay here to give a talk on Friday at the Okendo Cultural Centre at 7 PM.
Several of his books have been adapted for the big screen, but when asked about whether he has ever thought about writing scripts he stresses that novels and screenplays are very quite types of writing. With the novel he feels he has more freedom than with a script. There are also budgetary and production problems that make writing screenplays a more complex process. “The script is part of the story of the film; the novel is the entire story.”
Having had his books turned into films, he respects the director’s work a great deal. He thinks that the eternal debate about whether a film adaptation should be faithful to the original book is like when an artist paints a landscape or a photographer takes a picture of it. It’s just a question of expressing it from two different viewpoints.
He confesses that the films that really strike a chord with him are ones that focus on the humanity of their characters, and he mentions Isabel Coixet and Almodóvar as two important examples of the kind of cinema he loves.
He also says that when he forms part of a jury he watches films without any preconceived ideas. For example he admits that he didn’t particularly like the subject of Isabel Coixet’s adaptation of Philip Roth’s Elegy but acknowledges that he had probably never been moved more by a film in his life.
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