Considering the prevailing cliché of the “Sundance movie,” which promises quirky coming-of-age narratives and feel-good/hard-fought personal breakthroughs and/or political actualizations amped up to a transcendental credit-reel sendoff, it can be disorienting to find among the Festival’s 100 odd features an equal amount of atypical offerings—knotty, unexpected, ambitious films that defy the stereotype. Foremost among these are literary adaptations, films that due to the built-in distancing effect of interpretation—an auteur solving for the intentions of an author—tend to at least steer clear of self- (if not of every) indulgence. Looking over the literary adaptations of ...
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