Jean-Luke's Reviews > Waiting for the Barbarians

Ummm, so apparently this has been made into a film, to be released later this year? Hmmm. Not what I was expecting to pop up while watching a Youtube clip from All This, and Heaven Too. Of course it would star Johnny Depp, probably only because he wanted to wear those sunglasses. I did like Robert Pattinson in The Lighthouse so that's fine, I guess. How am I supposed to feel about this and why am I only discovering this now? I just don't quite see--how--why. JM Coetzee is the last author on earth whose books I expect to be adapted to film. Then again, there was that adaptation of Disgrace that I never watched.

If I ever watch it (Johnny Depp would be the reason I don't watch it), I would watch it just for the scenery (it was filmed in Morocco!) as that is one aspect of the book (completely beside the point, I realize) I particularly enjoyed. Sigh, here I go, Dear Diarying on Goodreads again.