Karoo. Frédéric Bézian.

In French, 128 pages, carton cover, in colour. 32 x 24 cm. Delcourt. Price 28,90EUR
Based on the posthumous novel by American playwright Steve Tesich, we follow the life of the sixty-year-old script doctor Saul Karoo, in his professional and family life, in order to observe his moral and authorial decadence due to indifference and alcohol. The purpose of his job is to ensure that the film he works on has the necessary commercial success for the production company, but often this means having to destroy the creative, original and personal vision of its author. The present case is acute, since Karoo is forced to transform what he knows to be a masterpiece of cinema into a "tape" for medium consumption... Combined with the ongoing divorce, the difficulty in talking to her son, and a mystery that involves the actress of the film in question will thicken into a skein that will bring even worse bitterness to her life.
In the French author's very thin line of wire, with high contrasts of black and white, interrupted by a caustic orange, this adaptation seems like a hallucinated current of thought, between Hollywood parties, the decadence of the American entertainment empire, magical Homeric visions and scenes à la Hunter Thompson.