Paris Was A Woman

Großbritannien / USA, 1995
Length
80 minutes
Director
Greta Schiller
Cast
  • Juliet Stevenson
  • Maureen All
  • Gillian Hanna
  • Margaret Robertson
  • Shari Benstock
  • John Bernard
  • Berthe Cleyrerque
  • Janet Flanner
  • Giselle Freund
  • Samuel Steward
  • Catharine Stimpson
  • Josephine Baker
  • Sylvia Beach
  • Colette
  • James Joyce
  • Malcolm Muggeridge
  • Pablo Picasso
  • Gertrude Stein
  • Paul Valéry

Content

PARIS WAS A WOMAN” is a film portrait of the creative community of women writers, artists, photographers and editors who flocked to the Left Bank of Paris in the early decades of the 20th century, when Paris was the undisputed cultural capital of the world. Using groundbreaking research and newly discovered home movies, “Paris” uses intimate storytellng as it intertwines interview with anecdote. “Paris Was a Woman” recreates the mood and flavor of this female artistic community in Paris during its most magical era. Authors Colette, Djuna Barnes and Gertrude Stein, poets HD and Natalie Clifford Barney, painters Romaine Brooks and Marie Laurencin, editors Bryher, Alice Toklas, Margaret Anderson and Jane Heap, photographers Berenice Abbott and Gisele Freund, booksellers Sylvia Beach and Adrienne Monnier, and journalist Janet Flanner all figure in this legendary milieu.

Source: Jezebel Productions

Gallery

Credits

Production company
Jezebel Productions, Cicada Films, Salzgeber & Co. Medien GmbH
Original title
Paris Was A Woman