#film-adaptations

#film-adaptations

It was no surprise, when Federico Fellini cast Claudia Cardinale in 8 (1963), that she played the dream girl of his alter ego on screen. By that time, Cardinale, who has died aged 87, had already emerged as a major Italian film star. In the same year, she appeared as the ravishing Sicilian courted by Alain Delon's handsome Garibaldi officer in Il Gattopardo (The Leopard), Luchino Visconti's great adaptation of Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa's novel.

The trailer is a touch heavy-handed in its insistence that you understand this is all about our current surveillance state and corporate harvesting of our data.

Eggers's penchant for creating biblically accurate, terrifying narratives shines through his unique take on familiar tales like Dickens's 'A Christmas Carol.'