“It’s a puzzling trend. Even the most brilliant literary work generally comes from a solitary individual sitting at a table in front of a sheet of paper or a computer, which is not exactly full of dramatic possibilities. The writer’s film seems to defy commercial logic. No matter how many of us have studied Sylvia Plath at school, it’s hard to see a drama about a suicidal poet as a box-office winner. Yet these films keep coming.”