Finally, a Phillip Roth book has been properly adapted into a movie! Granted, this a relatively small achievement in comparison to, say, curing cancer or landing on Mars, but it is a feat that had nonetheless eluded humanity until now. Films like Portnoy's Complaint, The Human Stain, and a half dozen others have consistently fallen short of capturing the combustible mix of Jewish identity, righteous irony, social commentary, and obsessive puzzling over human interaction, either sexual or banal, that have kept us reading Roth's books for over a half century.

In our final dispatch from the Berlinale, we caught up with James Schamus, who recently directed 'Indignation.'