Alternative inheritances: re-thinking what adaptation might mean in Francois Ozon's Le Temps qui reste [Time to Leave].(Critical essay)

Film adaptation is frequently considered the "most narrow and provincial area" of film theory by its detractors, who characterize it as caught up in old debates about the worth of film against other art forms (Andrew 28). Robert Stam argues that much of the antipathy toward the film adaptation comes from "the myth of facility" and the idea that films are somehow suspiciously easy to watch, leading to a class prejudice, and a division of popularity versus prestige. Critics lambaste filmic "betrayals" of modernist novels, for example, while forgetting the filmic "redemption" of many …