It's nice to learn that an American novel published in 1951 has such a strong fan in France as the writer and actor Frederic Beigbeder.And that when Beigbeder flies to the US, as we see him do here, the low income and non white students of a Harlem school he visits say they respond to an old book about a white boy of privilege who attends a prep school.Beigbeder's pilgrimage tour of New York City sites associated with Salinger is also of interest.
But what the fellow writers he interviews there have to say about Salinger and Catcher is not especially deep, and the director unnecessarily gussies up the images of people and locales with fancy split screen effects.
Ultimately we know that Beigbeder's quest to meet the reclusive author will end in disappointment. And we wonder why he bothered to go to all this trouble.
Review of L'attrape-Salinger
L'attrape-Salinger
(2007 TV Movie)
Cutesy Documentary about Writers Has Little To Surprise
3 June 2019