Films : Tsili (2014), based on the novel by Aharon Appelfeld ; Roses on Credit (2010), based on the novel by Elsa Triolet.
Literature doesn't need cinema. It doesn't impose a ready-made image that tries to flesh out a text. It's up to the reader to do that, in different ways. Cinema is more authoritarian. It gives a unique interpretation of a text. In theory, cinema is linear. You watch a film from beginning to end, in the order in which the sequences follow one another, whereas when you're reading a novel, you can always stop whenever you like. I always say to the writers I adapt : " I don't want to illustrate your text, because it deserves to exist on its own. I'm doing this adaptation to create a dialogue between two independent disciplines. Each has its own weapons. I'm interested in this process of interpretation : I'll remain faithful to the spirit of the project, but not necessarily to its letter. "