Lecture by Ariadne Baresch (Trier) in the context of the Research Colloquium “Digital perspectives”, SoSe 2022

Belgian film director Chantal Akerman has succeeded where many of her colleagues before her have failed: A cinematic adaptation of Proust's In Search of Lost Time. Critics believe that Akerman's success is partly due to the fact that she did not film the entire novel cycle, but only used the fifth volume, La Prisonnière, as a model. Her film La Captive already announces in its title what becomes clear to Proust connoisseurs after a few minutes of viewing: Her adaptation lives to a great extent from an artistic independence and at the same time picks up on the constricting atmosphere of the original. On the basis of selected scenes and text passages, the lecture will explore how the original and the adaptation can be related to each other and in what way the titular prisoner is portrayed in both works.