Audrey Diwan is no stranger to adapting books for the big screen with her films Happening and Emmanuelle both originating as novels. The French filmmaker touched down at Dublin’s Storyhouse screenwriting festival, where she discussed her approach to the writing process, collaborating with authors and the challenges of staying true to the original work.
“I used to ask the writer, ‘What are you trying to hide? What do you not want to say? And whenever you can name it, then you start the work,” Diwan told an audience at the Light House Cinema. “And you try to go to that place that you are avoiding because that’s why you would tell a story.”
She continued: “There are many, many books and films in history so why would anyone be a writer of anything? It’s not because you are you. Who cares, right? You have to define that secret place that hurts
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