sklenicka-carol
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"After the Denim" translates Raymond Carver's short story of the same title to film with an admirable appreciation of Carver's small-town characters. The art direction is exquisite -- the apartment, the clothes, the close-ups, especially having Edith wear a girlish hair style (graying) and James in conservative clothes.
At the same time, the film goes beyond merely translating Carver's story; it brings in some resonances from Carver's longer (original, unedited by Gordon Lish) version of the story called "If It Please You" and updates the "hippies" of Carver's day to Gen X (or Y?) kids who drive an old Cadillac and look at James Packer with insouciance his obsessive, suspicious behavior deserves.
Read the stories in the Library of America edition, then see the film.
At the same time, the film goes beyond merely translating Carver's story; it brings in some resonances from Carver's longer (original, unedited by Gordon Lish) version of the story called "If It Please You" and updates the "hippies" of Carver's day to Gen X (or Y?) kids who drive an old Cadillac and look at James Packer with insouciance his obsessive, suspicious behavior deserves.
Read the stories in the Library of America edition, then see the film.