8 movies about writers of all eras and genres

In the wake of the premiere last month of Tolkien , about the author of The Lord of the Rings, today I select other 8 movies about writers. Obviously there are many more, but after a survey I have decided on these. Surely everyone has their own, of course, or other more preferred. At the moment these titles are about Dickens, Lorca, austen, the sisters bronte, HC Andersen, Agathe Christie y Shakespeare.

Tolkien

The stars Nicholas Hoult, well known for being the Bestia in the latest films about the first generation of X-men. And count the influence that the I went through the First World War of the writer and his college friends. That fact and the relations with them marked the creation of that Fellowship of the Ring and those worlds and languages ​​that led to the worldwide success of what was the perhaps most famous fantasy book trilogy of History.

The invisible woman - The invisible woman

There are more films about Charles Dickens, the most recent was this. And let's not say of his novels, which provide for quite a few more articles. But for more prosaic reasons, read my devotion to Ralph Fiennes, today I stay with this one who directed and starred in 2013.

It is based on the Claire Tomalin novel, English writer and journalist known for her biographies, great authors such as the aforementioned Dickens, Thomas Hardy or Jane Austen. He tells how, at the height of his career, Dickens, married and aged 46, meet a young woman of 18 which becomes your secret lover until his death.

The fabulous Andersen

Maybe it's more for him childhood memory I have to for its quality or relevance. But this 1952 musical version about the life of most popular Danish writer of children's stories It is one of my favorites. There are more later versions, but this one stayed in my heart also because of the kind, humorous and technicolor portrait that he made D.

Shakespeare in love

Well-known, winner of several Oscars, among them the best film, with another fiennes in between ... It matters little that it fits more or less to reality, always with so many nooks and crannies and mysteries of the most famous English bard of all time. Nor does it matter that it leads to a comedy of misunderstandings by its author. Is 1998 version has already stayed on the top of the many that have been made about him.

Lorca, death of a poet

Raise your hand who does not remember this magnificent tv series about Federico García Lorca. And there are many. Directed her Juan Antonio Bardem and it was released at the end of 1987. Consisted of 6 episodes and it can be seen again whenever you want on RTVE's A la Carta. It brought together the best of Spanish interpretation, although it starred in it Nickolas grace, a great English actor who had been seen in another of those exquisite British series of the 80s, Retorno a Brideshead.

Young Jane Austen

De 2007. It is directed by Julian Jarrold and starring Anne Hathaway, James McAvoy, Julie Walters or James Cromwell among others. Based on evidence studied on a romance of the famous Victorian writer with the young lawyer Tom Lefroy, the film recreated this story to delve into the foundations of the romanticism of their works.

The Brontë sisters

The novels of the Brontë sisters have a thousand and one versions in the cinema, but of them as protagonists there are many fewer. The later one is from 2016, but I stick with this approximation that they made from France en 1979. Directed by André Téchiné, is starring Isabelle Huppert, Isabelle Adjani and Marie-France Pisier. And he makes a very calm review of the lives of these three exceptional sisters of world literature.

Agatha

And I finish with another movie of 1979 who signs by starring two heavyweights of the cinema as Dustin Hoffman and Vanessa Redgrave. The latter embodies Agatha Christie and Hoffman is the American journalist who investigates her mysterious disappearance in 1926.


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