🔺The New Yorker on Odisseus Nolan: A good film adaptation is not necessarily a literal transfer of literature

▪Richard Brody, a film critic for The New Yorker, in reviewing the film “Odyssey” directed by Christopher Nolan, raises an old debate about the relationship between cinema and literature and the meaning of “fidelity” in film adaptation, saying that the value of an adaptation cannot be judged solely by how closely it adheres to the original text.