Country: USA
Year: 1970
Duration: 105'
A former top model swings in her memory between a lonely present and a past of reminiscences and fantasies, retracing various events of her life: her affair with an older man when she was 16, her relationship with her manager, her love for an adman, her attempted suicide, her recovery in a psychiatric clinic. At the end of a long flashback, the woman finds herself in her lonely house by the sea with her photographer friend, who makes her believe that he was one of her lovers. “My first film was a very personal film: it was for somebody I knew and she has a tragic ending: a really close friend, with a successful career like a model. When she started everybody loved her, but, when she gets old and the fashion industry could not make money from her, they just dumped her. It’s a metaphor of life and I saw her life because I was in this business. It’s cruel, because if they can make money from you, they’ll keep you everything. In the 1970s it was the beginning of this process.”
Biography
film director
Jerry Schatzberg
(New York, NY, USA, 1927), one of the most famous photographers of the 1960s, has collaborated with magazines like “Vogue,” “Esquire,” “Glamour” and “Life. He has made portraits of the most important artists and intellectuals of the time, including Bob Dylan (he took the photo that is on the cover of the album Blonde on Blonde) and Robert Rauschenberg. He debuted in 1970 with Puzzle of a Downfall Child, which was followed the next year by The Panic in Needle Park, Al Pacino’s first film. In 1973, his film Scarecrow won the Grand Prix in Cannes. One of his later films, Reunion, is based on the novel by Fred Uhlman and was written by Harold Pinter.
FILMOGRAFIA
Puzzle of a Downfall Child (Mannequin - Frammenti di una donna, 1970), The Panic in Needle Park (Panico a Needle Park 1971), Scarecrow (Lo spaventapasseri, 1973), Sweet Revenge (1976), The Seduction of Joe Tynan (La seduzione del potere, 1979), Honeysuckle Rose (Accordi sul palcoscenico, 1980), Misunderstood (Incompreso - L’ultimo sole d’estate, 1984), No Small Affair (Una cotta importante, 1984), Street Smart (Street Smart - Per le strade di New York, 1987), Clinton and Nadine (La contropartita, tv, 1988), Reunion (L’amico ritrovato, 1989), Lumière et compagnie (ep. Jerry Schatzberg, cm, 1995), The Day the Ponies Come Back (2000).
Cast
& Credits
regia/director
Jerry Schatzberg
soggetto/story
Carole Eastman, Jerry Schatzberg
sceneggiatura/screenplay
Carole Eastman
fotografia/cinematography
Adam Holender
montaggio/film editing
Evan Lottman
scenografia/production design
Richard Bianchi
costumi/costume design
Terry Leong, Roland Meledandri
musica/music
Michael Small
suono/sound
Sanford Rackow
interpreti e personaggi/cast and characters
Faye Dunaway (Lou Andreas Sand), Barry Primus (Aaron Reinhard), Viveca Lindfors (Pauline Galba), Barry Morse (il dottor/Dr Galba), Roy Scheider (Mark), Ruth Jackson (Barbara Casey), John Heffernan (il dottor/Dr Sherman), Sydney Walker (lo psichiatra/Psychiatrist), Clark Burckhalter (Davy Bright), Shirley Rich (Peggy McCavage), Emerick Bronson (Falco)
produttore/producer
John Foreman
produzione/production
Universal Pictures
