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Adaptation
Anyone who has seen Being John Malkovich will know not to expect orthodoxy from director Spike Jonze and writer Charlie Kaufman. But where the earlier film revelled in its uniquely twisted sense of logic, Adaptation is a bit of a mess, albeit an endearing one.
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The towering twins
Philip French: [the] brilliant Adaptation operates at a different level from films such as Truffaut's La Nuit Américaine or Godard's Le Mépris about the dramas attendant upon shooting a movie. It's nearer to Alain Robbe-Grillet's Trans-Europ-Express