I saw “Joan Didion: The Center Will Not Hold” on the last
day of the Middleburg Film Festival today.
Directed by Didion’s nephew, Griffin Dunne, the documentary looks at the
life of the noted writer and some of the stories behind her books. The film features extensive interviews with
Didion as well as others associated with her life and career.
The movie includes photos and videos of the now 82-year-old
writer as well as her late husband, John Gregory Dunne, and their late
daughter, Quintana Roo. Taking us from
her first novel in 1962 to the memoir “Blue Nights,” published more than fifty
years later, the work provides a brilliant insight into a magnificent writer.
In addition to reading Didion’s books, I admired the production
of Didion’s “The Year of Magical Thinking,” about her husband’s death, which was
performed as a one-person play at the great Arena Stage in Washington, D.C., last
year. Kathleen Turner portrayed Didion.
The Middleburg Film Festival, in its fifth year, is held in
Middleburg, Virginia, the small hunt-country town about forty miles from
Washington, D.C. This documentary film
will be available on Netflix on October 27.
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