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A Rare Hollywood Success at Putting Religion and Literature on the Screen
Flannery O’Connor at the movies.
If a recent attempt to rework a Shakespeare play for the modern stage fell short, it’s hard to imagine Hollywood succeeding at turning the life of a deeply religious author of challenging fiction into a movie. But Christopher Scalia believes that a new film about the great southern author Flannery O’Connor does just that. The director and co-writer, Ethan Hawke, manages to depict O’Connor’s life while weaving in scenes from her stories and novels:
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A Rare Hollywood Success at Putting Religion and Literature on the Screen
Flannery O’Connor at the movies.