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Rafferty, Terrence | January 16, 1988 issue

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This article focuses on the motion picture "Housekeeping," by Scottish director Bill Forsyth. The film's story has been adapted from someone else's material, a 1981 novel by an American writer, Marilynne Robinson. Forsyth's screenplay is almost slavishly faithful to Robinson's poetic, very literary book, which is based on her own idiosyncratic childhood and adolescence in 1950s Idaho; yet Forsyth doesn't wholly submerge his own personality. Forsyth doesn't quite make "Housekeeping" his own--it's Marilynne Robinson's, and he knows its but he's produced a superbly empathetic reading of it, a reverie on the novel's themes. Without departing from novel's spirit, the film is actually an improvement on the book.

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HOUSEKEEPING (Film); MOTION pictures; MOTION picture producers & directors; FORSYTH, Bill; ROBINSON, Marilynne; MOTION pictures & literature
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