Thursday, March 05, 2015
Unwanted and unknown
Some writers are attracted to other writers and form a small galaxy around them.
Simone de Beauvoir was one of these. Today's film is not about her but she is a powerful presence as is Jean Genét. Both mentors of the very interesting and, finally successful, Violette Le Duc.
Le Duc is interesting because of her trials in writing and, in this film anyway, her desire for love which is never quenched. De Beauvoir is the focus of this but there are others. Not just women. Le Duc was on the hunt for anyone who could give her an affection fix.
We also see her mother and her early life. The film is a rich tapestry of psychosexual confusion and resolution. For Le Duc it was on the page.
Her timing was great because the world was just beginning to want to read her kind of stories.
The film is long. 2.5 hours. I watched in two parts. It is quite beautiful with many country scenes. Very little studio work I would guess. Old houses, fields, woods.
I enjoyed it a lot and did not suffer from the splitting into two sittings. It helped, in fact, to focus some on what I had seen and made my seeing of the second part more "successful".
I would give this a 5 out of Netflix 5 but I am sure that I will not be seeing this again. A 4 means that I would if given the opportunity but won't pursue it directly.
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