MATT HAIG - "Midnight Library" " Nora Seed feels useless. Her cat is dead, her brother doesn’t seem to be interested in her, and she has been fired: nobody needs her. Late one evening, she tries to kill herself. But instead of death, what Nora finds is a library in which each volume represents a version of her life where she made different choices. The possibilities are numberless. There is a Nora who became a rock star, another who has won Olympic medals, another living aboard an Arctic research vessel; some versions are mothers, wives, orphans; famous and influential, or not. All she has to do to step into that life is open the book. If she finds a good life, she can stay; the difficulty lies in deciding “whether a life could really be judged from just a few minutes after midnight on a Tuesday”. The foundation of the idea is the many worlds theory, in which a new universe blossoms from every choice and decision. It’s a beautiful concept, but Matt Haig doesn’t explai...
Alone ( Turkish : Issız Adam ) is a 2008 Turkish film written and directed by Çağan Irmak . The movie has received widespread interest from the Turkish media and had an outstanding performance in the box-office. The film's Turkish title Issız Adam is a triple entendre , as it can mean "Abandoned Man", "My Abandoned Island", and "My Lonely Ada", Ada being the name of the female lead character. The film follows the lives of two people who live in Istanbul who happen to meet each other in a second-hand book shop. Alper is from Tarsus . He and Ada live different lives; Alper is a free-spirited man in his thirties who is the owner and the cook of a popular restaurant whereas Ada is a humble girl in her late twenties who designs child costumes for a living. Alper follows Ada to her shop after the initial meeting but she acts coldly towards him and insists that she doesn't want a serious relationship and throws coffee on him. She la...
Gemma Arterton plays a new kind of Bovary in Anne Fontaine’s Toronto world premiere The time period and spelling may be different, but Gustave Flaubert ’s most famous creation is very much alive in Gemma Bovery , a breezy postmodern update of the classic novel that replaces the book’s darker passages for tongue-in-cheek laughs and plenty of eye candy — whether it’s the sprawling Gallic countryside, a bakery filled with boules de pain or else Madame Bovery herself. Adapted from Posy Simmonds ’ popular graphic novel, this enjoyable outing from hit-or-miss director Anne Fontaine ( Coco Before Chanel , Adore ) stars British bombshell Gemma Arterton as the latest, and one of the sexiest, incarnations of French literature’s favorite desperate housewife. But it’s co-star Fabrice Luchini , playing both neighbor and narrator, who winds up stealing the show, providing an amusing portrait of a man whose dual obsession with Fla...
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