It is impossible to make a direct adaptation ... literature and cinema are two different languages: Béla Tarr
(Extracts from an interview realized on FICM 2018 ) […] FICM: You have made several films based on novels. How is your adaptation process? BÉLA TARR : My first encounter with literature was Shakespeare's Macbeth . I did it in film school. It was my first movie, and then after that, I became a film student, and somehow I ignored the school and they allowed me to do what I wanted… My teacher told me: “You have to do some kind of adaptation, from another way, we will have to say goodbye to you, because this is a school ”. And I said, "Ok, let's do Macbeth, from Shakespeare ." And you know, when you read the text and understand the meaning, and of course, you have your own relationship with the work, and afterwards it was very easy because I only chose what I wanted to keep and what I wanted to leave out. And I focused only on one part of the drama, and then I used the text as in normal life, and somehow the actors spoke in a normal language. Later, when I read László Kr...