The Select (The Sun Also Rises)

Director John Collins and his immensely talented Elevator Repair Service corps find clever ways to prick and subdue Hemingway’s 1926 picaresque about lovesick expats in Paris and Spain. Retaining much of the book’s dialogue, the piece is a fascinating duel between literalism and abstraction. You will remember every magic, sensual pleasure the next morning.—David Cote