I read Nicholas Mosley’s ‘Impossible Object’ (his novel shortlisted for the first ever, 1969, Booker Prize) in 2011 and purposely reread it over the two days prior to watching this film. Whilst reading the eight slightly interlinked stories of a couple, narrated by various voices, the stories joined by introspective interludes quoting Nietzsche, Roman and Greek myths, I wondered how could this possible be transferred to film?
“The object is that life is impossible; one cuts out fabrications and creates reality. A mirror is held to the back of the head and one’s hand has to move the opposite way from what was intended.”
I’m not convinced that a novel that explores the impossibility of love, of unhappy endings (“those…