That knowledge makes the already graceful cinematic language
of Lynne Ramsay's film adaptation (the Scottish director's third feature, and her first in a regrettable period
of nine years) all the more remarkable: altering not a jot
of narrative detail, Ramsay and co-writer Rory Kinnear have ingeniously hollowed
out Shriver's wordy text into a
largely tacit, imagistic
memory collage that substitutes sound and vision for dialogue as extensively as possible.
Windows Phone produced many fond
memories, particularly stand -
out devices like the Lumia 1020, but it
largely represents a missed opportunity to adapt to an industry where phones, not PCs, are the center
of the computing universe.