The Voyeur
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The Voyeur is a 1985 novel by Alberto Moravia adapted for film by Tinto Brass in 1994, four years after Moravia's death.
In the 1980s Brass spoke with his friend Alberto Moravia about converting his novel, L’uomo che guarda (The Man Who Watches) into a screenplay. This was originally scheduled to go before the cameras in 1986 or 1987. Moravia, an admirer of Brass’s work, was pleased at the prospect, but the film was delayed and he did not live to see the result.
Plot
French literature professor Edoardo is puzzled by his wife Silvia’s frequent unexplained disappearances, and by her brief and unannounced reappearances. He is even more puzzled by his bedridden father’s success with the ladies. But all that’s nothing compared to his puzzlement at discovering that Sylvia is sneaking into his father’s bedroom at night.
Notes
- André Gide, Le Roi candaule
- Herodotus
- Céline's Nord
- Mallarmé Une négresse par le démon secouée
