
Real Life is Messy - Tom McCarthy's Remainder brought to cinematic life at #LFF
Despite Tom McCarthy’s debut novel Remainder being deeply entrenched in ideas about the moving image, it still seemed a significant challenge to translate his elusively brilliant ideas into cinematic form. Fortunately artist turned screenwriter and director Omer Fast has done so very cleverly, effectively translating the novel’s complexity to the screen. The backstory has been extended to provide stronger narrative structure, but the author’s preoccupations with time, the loo