![]() ![]() If you watch the film, and that's your only guide to Hill's story, you miss the story of a man who is in profound grief and is trying to rationalize a personal trauma in the only way he can make sense of things. One of my favorite examples of this phenomenon is The Woman in Black, based on Susan Hill's most excellent novel. Watching is one thing capturing more of the nuances in a story than the screenwriter can convey in a movie is another. I have this thing about reading books (or sometimes short stories) before I see the film adaptations this year's main focus in my crime reading, in and around my normal bouncing from present to past, is reading books that eventually became movies - my own sort of personal page-to-screen challenge. ![]() ![]() Originally published as D'entre les morts, 1954 ![]()
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