Feel Better About the Indelibly Fleeting Nature of Youth with Our Indignation Giveaway!
Revered writer Philip Roth is 83, though with 2016’s fervor to add even more adaptations to his increasingly Stephen-King-like pile of filmic interpretations, one might believe the beloved, dying animal could live forever—especially given the recent interest in adapting the author’s late-period “Nemeses” novels, like 2014’s The Humbling (with Al Pacino) and now Indignation.
(Not to mention Alex Ross Perry’s Listen Up Philip, which is basically a pitch-perfect homage to Roth’s sensibilities.)
How exactly does director James Schamus translate Roth’s voice? Here’s Kenji Fujishima in our review of the film:
Those who go into James Schamus’ INDIGNATION unfamiliar with the 2008 Philip Roth novel on which it’s based may well come out of it thinking it’s essentially the tragedy of a forbidden love affair between super-focused college student Marcus Messner (Logan Lerman) and neurotic Olivia Hutton (Sarah Gadon), two outsiders in the ultra-conservative environment of (fictional) Ohio-based Winesburg College in 1951. But this is the point at which Schamus departs from the book, playing up the doomed romanticism through minor but telling additions and subtle shifts in emphasis. Perhaps Schamus—former CEO of Focus Features, making his directorial debut here—couldn’t help but let his producer instincts kick in, figuring this more overtly romantic angle would be a more widely palatable option than Roth’s bitter ironies and general fatalistic outlook.
So, to help you with all that bitter irony and fatalism, we’ve partnered with Roadside Attractions to give some readers the following entryway into Roth’s world:
One (1) winner receives:
– $100 American Express Gift Card to see INDIGNATION in theaters (and probably get some popcorn or one of those really expensive Slushees)
– Official Soundtrack
– Copy of the Movie Tie-in Book
And three (3) additional winners receive:
– Official Soundtrack
– Copy of the Movie Tie-in Book
– Poster signed by stars Logan Lerman, Sarah Gadon and writer/director James Schamus