Sentences with phrase «autobiographical novel by»

This is the third part of a six - part autobiographical novel by the Norwegian Karl Ove Knausgaard in which a character named Karl Ove recounts in mesmerizing detail how he navigated the vicissitudes of growing up, leaving home, marrying twice, having children and becoming a writer.

Gifted director Laurent Cantet began with a best - selling autobiographical novel by a teacher, Francois Begaudeau.

and Intolerable Cruelty... Ryan Gosling is planning to produce and star in a Busby Berkeley biopic based on Buzz: The Life and Art of Busby Berkeley by Jeffrey Spivak... Returning once again to the workaday lives of North Africans in modern France, Philippe Faucon will make Fatima, an adaptation of Prière à la Lune, an autobiographical novel by Fatima Elayoubi about the life of a cleaning lady raising two teenage daughters born in France...

Based on the autobiographical novel by Jan Guillou and set in the mid-1950s, the film relates the experiences of a troubled young man who's enrolled into a hidebound private school.

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Sadly, the film, which was adapted by The Artist's Michel Hazanavicius from Wiazemsky's autobiographical novel Un An Après, seems more interested in pastiching Godard's own movies than saying anything interesting about the couple.

The Piano Teacher, based on a novel by Elfriede Jelinek (apparently largely autobiographical, which is disturbing news in itself), is much more classical in style, though as before it demands considerable input from the viewer: Haneke deliberately avoids making any comments on the film's action, letting the audience judge for themselves.

Hoult admirably channels the confident, untested artist who is scared by the potential length of his own autobiographical novel (and then elated with its breakout success).

Based on J.G. Ballard's autobiographical novel and a screenplay by Tom Stoppard, the film tells the story of a British schoolboy — played by future Batman Christian Bale — separated from his parents during Japan's invasion of Shanghai during World War II.

Guided by Rumer Godden's autobiographical novel, he rejected the India of exotic action and spectacle to make a medit...

The criminal eluding capture for just over one year, trying to disappear by making himself unmemorable; the writer tracking him years later, erasing himself to follow another person's journey, physical and emotional — a fascinating premise made all the more intriguing by the autobiographical elements of the novel.

The nominees, chosen by a blue - ribbon panel of judges, reflect the wide range of material being published in comics and graphic novel form today, from crime noire to autobiographical works to cartoon adventures.

by James Ellroy This collection, packed to the brim with crime and murder, is composed of 14 pieces including three novellas, a profile of celebrity defendant Robert Blake, several true - crime stories and a wealth of autobiographical material that provide a template for writing a mystery novel.