Cannibal happiness Here is an example of a successful film adaptation. Very rare, I must say. The film is based on the novel by Daniel Pennack, author of the Declaration of the Rights of the Reader, a former member of the shadow cabinet of Dieudonne Mbala Mbala and just a good French writer. His series of detectives about Malossen is a rather funny, colorful reading, which I at one time was not jokingly carried away. I didn't rest until I read all the books, it was so addictive. Semi-criminal Negro-Arab Belleville, humor, and normal, not French, but healthy such humor.
Pennack is a good teacher, author of children's books, worked for a long time with troubled children. So this topic is also well-revealed. This is about books. In the film, all this is, of course, smoothed out - sluggishly - a common thing for cinema, especially box office, but, surprisingly, the nature of the work is transferred to an extremely successful. Shot quite close to the text, although the authors creatively reworked the ending - there in the book everything is a little darker, so that the film turned out quite in the spirit and, at the same time, organically reinterpreted. We wish the creators further creative success and look forward to the continuation.