‘B for Bartleby’ Is a Film That Explores How to Adapt the Herman Melville Story for the Screen
Can one adapt Herman Melville‘s Bartleby, the Scrivener: A Story of Wall Street for the big screen? And if so, how? Austrian writer-director Angela Summereder’s new film, B for Bartleby, uses the famous short story as an inspiration for a broader cinematic reflection. The film explores “the impossibility of translating written language into images and…