The impossible screen adaptation of the Aurevillian landscape

The Aurevillian landscape participates in the real and imaginary in equal measure. The evocative force that it emanates encourages a reverie that is difficult for film and television makers to adapt or transpose. Five film adaptations and nine for television demonstrate this difficulty and the near impossibility of bringing the lande, the marshes, or the sea to the screen. In 1980, Jean Prat was the only television director to have devoted a significant amount of time to trying to reconstitute the reality of this landscape.