THE LAST DAY ON EARTH FROM FEU FOLLET TO OSLO, AUGUST 31ST
THE LAST DAY ON EARTH FROM FEU FOLLET TO OSLO, AUGUST 31ST

Summary/Abstract: This paper focuses on a very relevant and recent example of an accomplished rewriting (Oslo, August 31st by Joachim Trier) of Pierre Drieu La Rochelle’s Le Feu Follet, also compared with a more classic one, Louis Malle’s Le Feu follet from 1963, stressing upon a few significant differences that make Trier’s version a more dramatic, intriguing and powerful than Malle’s film, also being more accurate and closer to La Rochelle’s original story. Trier’s Oslo, August 31st is not only a more faithful and dramatic version, but is also an impressive achievement: his film reveals the present as a depressing reality (a psycho-apocalypse similar to Lars von Trier’s Melancholia, but reversing the relation between the self and the world).

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