TASK1

English settings: Ash's house, British Museum, London Library, Maud's house, Maud's car, Lincolnshire (Sir George Bailey's house, LaMotte's grave), Lincoln University, Yorkshire, Hodershall (cemetery).

The naive reader comes across institutions as the British Museum, Libraries, Centre of research, Academies and he understands that the film may deal with related topics.
The role of academy comes into play through research and analysis of books and documents by some characters.
Documents and letters come to the forefront because the story starts and develops around  them. They are testimony also and key reference points for the story.

Victorian and modern London are mostly presented through inner settings. The director focuses his camera on the rooms where the most important events take place. Almost all the settings are closed and inner settings.

There are different ideas of possession: physical love, mental love, ownership of precious letters and documents. 
Literary erudition is shown in the film through dialogues between characters and through the pages of letters, essays and last but not least books.
The characterizations of the four protagonists are created through their actions, movements, expressions, dialogues and physical aspect. 
The director shows the bond developing between Maud and Roland parallel and contemporary to the love story between Ash and LaMotte.
The juxtaposition of present and past is developed through montage (alternative sequences), flashback and panoramic effects.

TASK2

There are some differences between the novel and the movie. It is sliding and shorter than the novel. It doesn't linger over the scenes and the descriptions in the same way that the poem does. The film doesn't rigidly follow  the plot of the novel. Some events are not present into the movie, this is useful to the economy of it. The way in wich the film shows the relationships between the characters is easier than the novel. The reader finds little problems to follow all the events.
The two love stories developed at the same time: The poets's love story runs parallel to the love story of the researchers .
The past is relevant to understand the present because it anticipates through the love story of the poets all the events that will succed in the present. All the relationships that are described between the characters of the past are reflected in today's characters. The story starts in the past.
The characterization is built up thanks to actions, movements, expressions and dialogues.
Characters face life with ambition and persistence to follow their objective and interests. They are also swept away by passion and they aren't able to control it.
I think that the quality of actor's performance is good because they are able to convey the characters' feelings and the thoughts in a very credible way also when they aren't speaking.
The film's message is different than the novel's . It underlines the incessant research to discover the truth, the passion between the characters and the coexistence of the present and the past. The novel's message is different because it is about the presence of more truths. As a matter of fact the postscript highlights all this.
The idea of Post modernity is conveyed by the fragmentation in events narration and through the concept that no one can know the truth.

I think that the film reflects the content of the novel very well: it gives all the necessary information to understand the story but it doesn't engross the audience as the novel does with the readers.