21 June 2012

Paris Was a Woman (Greta Schiller, 1996)

7/10
Interesting if unspectacular documentary (it was made for TV, and much of the footage is is interviews with talking heads) about the exile of artistic women to Paris, focusing primarily on the 1920's. Sylvia Beach, Djuna Barnes, Gertrude Stein, Alice B. Toklas, Adrennie Monnier and others are the focal point. It was quite interesting to learn their stories (and, frankly, to learn how many of them were lesbians...I would have never guessed). Nothing monumental but worth a look if the subject matter interests you.

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