Kathryn Hahn finally has a leading role in Jill Soloway’s new Amazon series, but will the intimacy of the novel translate to the screen?
In voiceover, Kathryn Hahn’s Chris reads a letter to the titular Dick, played by Kevin Bacon, in the new trailer for Jill Soloway’s latest Amazon series I Love Dick. “Dear Dick,” she says, with an image of a deer, a sharpie and a letter appearing within the first two seconds of the trailer, “this is about obsession.” It’s a simple line — as emphasized through the minimal white-text-on-red-background as Hahn’s line is spoken — but it conveys both what makes Chris Kraus’ original novel worthy of being deemed “one of the most important books about being a woman” as well as the difficulty in translating confessional literature onto the screen.
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The events of Kraus’ novel of...
In voiceover, Kathryn Hahn’s Chris reads a letter to the titular Dick, played by Kevin Bacon, in the new trailer for Jill Soloway’s latest Amazon series I Love Dick. “Dear Dick,” she says, with an image of a deer, a sharpie and a letter appearing within the first two seconds of the trailer, “this is about obsession.” It’s a simple line — as emphasized through the minimal white-text-on-red-background as Hahn’s line is spoken — but it conveys both what makes Chris Kraus’ original novel worthy of being deemed “one of the most important books about being a woman” as well as the difficulty in translating confessional literature onto the screen.
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The events of Kraus’ novel of...
- 4/12/2017
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- FilmSchoolRejects.com
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