M... (&Alec) love

[jagodasladoled]

"Maurice" is on ARTE tonight!  And I already realized it never fails to make me happy.

I thought I'd tape it in French, but then I realized they are showing it in German as well, and not, as I had previously thought in the original version (that I have seen twice, so far, and all the drool-worthy scenes several times on YouTube).
So now I kept switching from French to German, French being a lot nicer, and wonder in what language I should watch the Maurice and Alec scenes... Probably in French and then tape the film in German when it airs again in two weeks...

Well, yeah, so I still am obsessed with the book and the film! And own neither myself, so far.

Comments

[la-mezzosoprano.livejournal.com]

Ich liebe den Film. Und der kam gestern auf Arte? Mh.

[jagodasladoled.livejournal.com]

Echt?! Dir gefällt der Film? Hehe, das freut mich!!

Es ist eine ziemlich gute Adaption, die Abweichungen von der Vorlage halten sich im Grunde in Grenzen, bis auf das natürlich einiges ausgelassen und eine weitere Handlung hinzugefügt wird.

ABER du musst das Buch lesen, sofern du das noch nicht getan hast! In meinen Augen ist es das Wunderbarste was ich jemals gelesen habe !!

[gorse-wine.livejournal.com]

What is it like in either language? Does much get lost in the translation, or any of it seem better (!)

[jagodasladoled.livejournal.com]

Well, nothing Forster wrote could sound better in a translation, I think! But from what I saw there wasn't so much lost, either.

But sadly, I didn't saw both the french and the german version of the film. I watched a bit in french and MEANT to tape it the next morning in german, but my recorder failed. I would have liked to have a german copy of the film, because it simply DOESN'T EXIST anywhere! No DVD has it, there are no videos, so the only way to catch it is on TV.

By the way, maybe one day I'll read the book in french. I read it in german after having read in twice in english, to see how it was translated. It was quite okay from what I remember but it hasn't got the flair of the original, of course.