In Todd Haynes» unspeakably beautiful adaptation of Patricia Highsmith's semi-autobiographical novel about a 1950s Manhattan shopgirl (Rooney Mara) who is thunderstruck by a mutual infatuation with a well - to - do housewife (Cate Blanchett), the film illustrates — among other things — how falling in love is an act of looking, while being in love is an act of seeing. (slate.com)
While I firmly believe Where the Wild Things Are (non-Kaufman script) is one of the most beautiful adaptations in years, I'm not sure you can convince movie buffs and members of the Academy that the screenplay is as sharp and memorable as Jonze's Adaptation or Being John Malkovich. (awardscircuit.com)
We see these beautiful co-adaptations most plainly in the woodpecker and mistletoe; and only a little less plainly in the humblest parasite which clings to the hairs of a quadruped or feathers of a bird;... in short, we see beautiful adaptations everywhere and in every part of the organic world.» (aqnb.com)