“My Heart Tells Me…” Antigone in a Movie by Sophie Deraspe
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.34624/fb.v0i21.41557Keywords:
Antigone, Sophocles, Sophie Deraspe, freedom, justiceAbstract
In the movie Antigone (2019), Canadian screenwriter and director Sophie Deraspe subverts Sophocles’s homonymous theater play (411 B.C.). In this paper, I intend to examine the mechanisms used to achieve this adaptation, which is as imaginative as radical. To do so, I compare both texts regarding the four narrative categories: space, time, characters, and plot. To support my study, I resort to the director’s statement and to essays by several theater and film critics.
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Filmografia
Deraspe, S. (Director). (2019). Antigone. Canada : Association Coopérative de Productions Audio-Visuelles.
