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Twisty brilliance from screenwriter Charlie Kaufman and director Spike Jonze, the team who created Being John Malkovich. Nicolas Cage returns to form with a funny, sad, and sneaky performance as Charlie Kaufman, a self-loathing screenwriter who has been hired to adapt Susan Orlean's book The Orchid Thief into a screenplay. Frustrated and infatuated by Orlean's elegant but plotless book (which is largely a rumination on flowers), Kaufman begins to write a screenplay about himself trying to write a screenplay about The Orchid Thief, all the while hounded by his twin brother Donald (Cage again), who's cheerfully writing the kind of formulaic action movie that Kaufman finds repugnant. By its conclusion, Adaptation is the most artistically ambitious, most utterly cynical, and most uncategorizable movie ever to come out of Hollywood. Also starring Meryl Streep (as Susan Orlean), Chris Cooper, Tilda Swinton, and Brian Cox; superb performances throughout. --Bret Fetzer
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Le réalisateur Spike Jonze et le scénariste Charlie Kaufman s’affirmaient, en 2000, comme le duo le plus prometteur du cinéma indépendant américain dans l’imaginatif Being John Malkovich. Ils sont de nouveau réunis dans Adaptation, qui, même s’il n’a pas l’éclat du précédent, brille par son originalité.
L’idée est simple : Kaufman avait tenté, en vain, d’adapter le roman Le Vol de l’orchidée, de Susan Orlean. Il a donc pris son propre échec comme sujet de scénario. Nicolas Cage devient ici Charlie Kaufman, scénariste névrosé et peureux, au frère jumeau plus doué. En parallèle nous est racontée la relation entre l’auteure du livre (Meryl Streep) et son sujet, un braconnier d’orchidées (Chris Cooper, oscar du meilleur second rôle masculin).
Voyageant allégrement entre les différents niveaux de réalité, Jonze et Kaufman se questionnent sur la création au cinéma. Malheureusement, les intrigues sont parfois confuses et nuisent à la cohérence de la réflexion, notamment lorsque l’histoire du scénariste et celle de l’auteure se rejoignent dans une tentative malhabile de créer une fin surprenante. En fait, même si l’audace du projet est à saluer, la prédominance du scénario sur la mise en scène est trop souvent déroutante pour qu’Adaptation soit vraiment à la hauteur de ce que les deux compères peuvent offrir. --Helen Faradji
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Very whitty, cleverly written movie,
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I had no idea what to expect the first time I watched this movie, but it is now one of my favotite movies. Actually after seeing this, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, and Being John Malkovich I have to say that Charlie Kaufman is definitely my favorite movie writer, as he writes stuff that is more original than most stuff out there, but is also very well written, and uses clever humour kind of like American Beauty.
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All I can say is WOW! You never know what is going to happen. Every minute you think one thing is going to happen and then it turns and goes in a completely different direction. It's funny, sad, shocking, suspensful, happy, everything. There is no one word to describe this movie.
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This review is from: Adaptation (DVD)
I quite simply loved this movie it is perfect and unique and every time i watch it i see more and more of its beauty
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