Trishna Directed by Michael Winterbottom Written by Michael Winterbottom United Kingdom, 2011 Capturing a character’s inner turmoil is always a challenge, but far more so in a movie than in a book. An author can go into massive detail on the page to tell us exactly how a character feels; a screenwriter and director has …
Trishna Written and directed by Michael Winterbottom UK, 2011 Among contemporary cinema’s more versatile and prolific directors, one of the few sources of inspiration Michael Winterbottom has repeatedly returned to is the work of Thomas Hardy. Jude, his 1996 adaptation of Hardy’s Jude the Obscure, was effectively his breakthrough film; 2000’s The Claim, meanwhile, was …
Trishna Written by Michael Winterbottom Directed by Michael Winterbottom UK, 2011 Almost any great story possesses two qualities that define it as a classic; those are timelessness and universality. Michael Winterbottom renews the relevance of classic Victorian novel Tess of the D’Urbervilles by transplanting its heroine into modern day India and renaming her Trishna, who …