John Le Carré comenta "O Jardineiro Fiel"

O Guardian publicou hj uma conversa com o escritor David Cornwell, mais conhecido pelo psedõnimo John le Carré

O autor de "O Espião que Saiu do Frio" comenta a adaptação para o cinema do livro, The Constant gardener (O jardineiro fiel), feita pelo Fernando Meirelles.

Cornwell aprovou a atualização de alguns diálogos incluindo críticas à participação britânica na invasão do Iraque.

And now, in Cornwell's estimation, the adaptation of The Constant Gardener is really good, too. But does that approbation extend to topical references inserted by his screenwriter to Britain's role in the Iraq war? "Refitting the script was admissible, I thought," he says crisply. More than admissible, surely. Caine has accurately reflected, in Tessa's swingeing words, much of what Cornwell has said about the war on Iraq. Since the publication of The Constant Gardener, he has gone on record opposing the Anglo-American ousting of Saddam Hussein. He told James Naughtie on BBC Radio 4's Today programme a couple of years ago that, "To me there's no bigger sin that a politician can commit than allowing his country to go to war under false pretences."

Meirelles recebeu elogios...

Cornwell was thrilled to have a Brazilian, Fernando Meirelles, director of the extraordinary Rio-slum-set City of God, at the helm of the film: "Fernando brought to it a third-world view. From the moment he was aboard, the story was about the victim rather than the perspective I had in the novel."

Veja tb as críticas do filme O jardineiro fiel no Boston Globe e Village Voice.