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Robbe Grillet's "Jealousy"
Topic Started: Oct 26 2016, 07:22 PM (328 Views)
Monsieur Arkadin
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This is a film I made that I've been sitting on for nearly a year now. Mostly because I don't know what to do with it due to the obvious legal implications. I got in touch with the Robbe-Grillet estate and never heard back. So it mostly just exists as a learning experience on adapting difficult source material.

But I thought it might be of particular interest here. So if you have any thoughts or feedback I'd love to hear it. It was basically an exercise to see if I could translate Robbe-Grillet's literary device into cinematic terms.


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Really interesting stuff! A commendable effort adapting that to the screen, and very nice looking too might I add.
I'm sorry that you've struggled with it for so long, but I'm certainly in agreeance that it's an incredibly valuable exercise that will no doubt benefit you in your future endeavors:)
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that was fun, with some sly little nods that work well in conjunction with the novel. the soundtrack is a bit off to me, maybe something a little more duras-like would work better, something like vera baxter maybe? i also wonder how it works for those who don't know the source material, but there's a good sense of elegance to the whole thing.
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It's a beautiful piece of film, and I like the editing, it feels like Robbe-Grillet structurally. I agree with brian about the soundtrack, which doesn't for me capture the mood of the source material. You might check out the composition La Jalousie by Heiner Goebbels, inspired by the novel. I've only heard excerpts, but it has a more destabilizing feel that for me is more in line with how I read the book. I'd also use inflectionless narration, to preserve the detachment in the writing. And I'd give some thought to keeping the text in the original French language, with subtitles, to keep the (English) viewer at a further remove from the speech.



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Thanks guys! Appreciate the input. The funny thing about the music is that I wrote it as a temp score, but as I went on kind of started to like the weird synthy-vibe. I was also a little nervous about having all the elements being fractured, so I thought the music would kind of be the single linear progression. But it's good to hear the counter-argument and I appreciate the recommendations. I'd never heard the Vera Baxter score or the Goebbels piece so I'll try to dig deeper into that stuff.

Also, interesting thoughts about the French. Something that honestly never even crossed my mind, but interesting considering the ambiguities and double entendre's that are lost with translating this text to English.

I may keep fiddling with the edit a bit, since I clearly have no deadline I need to hit.
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