How to adapt without betraying yourself

« Un village français », « Pépé le Moko », « Parasite »... : comment s’adapter sans se trahir

“Remakemania” (4/6). The Turkish version of “Dix pour cent” has lost its gay characters, the American adaptation of “Un Village français” is struggling with its post-Black Lives Matter validation… From one country to the next, remakes of films or series marry local mores. A more or less conscious, more or less hidden form of censorship?

Are snakes necessary? When, in 2018, filmmaker Brian De Palma came to Paris to promote this dark novel written with his screenwriter and partner, Susan Lehman, the couple told AFP: “Our favorite TV program? A French village ! “ Frédéric Krivine, creator of the series that ran from 2009 to 2017 on France Télévisions, leaps from his chair. He has a project in the pipeline. ” If Régine Deforges was able to make this crap of La Bicyclette bleue, which transposed a Civil War story during the Occupation, I said to myself

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