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"Fans of Susan Swan's novel The Wives of Bath might be forgiven for failing to recognize it as the basis for Léa Pool's recent film, Lost and Delirious (2001), so radically have Pool and screenwriter Judith Thompson altered key aspects of Swan's original narrative about the complicated relationships among three friends [...]."
-- Peter Dickinson


Source:
Dickinson, Peter. "Ghosts in and out of the Machine: Sighting/Citing Lesbianism in Susan Swan's The Wives of Bath and Léa Pool's Lost and Delirious." In Screening Gender, Framing Genre: Canadian Literature into Film. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2007. (p. 172)