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Di Barbara Loden sappiamo poco: nata sei anni dopo Marylin Monroe nella provincia americana, si trasferisce giovanissima a New York dove lavora come modella, pin-up, ballerina, per poi recitare in due film di Elia Kazan, che sposerà nel 1969. Nel 1970 scrive, dirige e interpreta Wanda, film che l'anno stesso vince il premio Pasinetti al Festival di Venezia ed è considerato oggi una pellicola di culto. Come ha evidenziato Marguerite Duras, dietro alla figura della Wanda di celluloide si staglia nettamente quella della stessa Loden: "In Wanda accade un miracolo. Normalmente, c'è una distanza tra rappresentazione e testo, soggetto e azione. Qui quella distanza è completamente annullata." Mescolando fiction, auto-fiction e biografia, Nathalie Léger si immerge nel mistero di Barbara e di Wanda. Così, in una ricerca sempre più spasmodica e incalzante - tra le cittadine minerarie della Pensylvania, nelle location del film - ci porta alla scoperta di una delle figure più affascinanti della cinematografia hollywoodiana, illustrandoci le debolezze, le rinunce e le lotte di una donna che soltanto nel cinema ha trovato la forza di gridare silenziosamente il suo malessere.
- ISBN: 8883733746
- Casa Editrice: La Nuova Frontiera
- Pagine: 120
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On 21 February 1971, Barbara told the Sunday News: “I was nothing. I had no friends. No talent. I was like a shadow. I didn’t learn a thing in school. I still can’t count. I hated movies as a child, people on the screen were perfect and it made me feel inferior.’ Later on, in the Post: “I used to Leggi tutto
Valeria Luiselli's wonderful Lost Children Archive references many works of literature, but one reference in particular struck me: Among these I find a small white book—the galleys of a novel by Nathalie Léger called Untitled for Barbara Loden. It looks a little out of place there , squeezed and sile Leggi tutto
The first time I got a copy of this book I thought, ugh, no. The second time I got a copy of it I was confused. What do people see in this? How can a book about a film be interesting at all? I decided to push through during Women in Translation month, a bit of a completist for my Dorothy Publishing Pro Leggi tutto
My review of this was published in Music & Literature here: http://www.musicandliterature.org/rev...
Rating: 5* of five My review of SUITE FOR BARBARA LODEN is live today at Mel Bosworth's Small Press Book Review . Another wonderful, wonderful book published by Dorothy, a Publishing Project. The sooner you acquaint yourself with this extraordinary publishing house, the happier your brains will be.
This was AMAZING. A mesmerizing little gem of a book. I only wish it were longer.
A brilliant essayistic novel that follows the author’s obsession with actress Barbara Loden and her film, Wanda. Loden, who said that she made the film “as a way of confirming my existence” nonetheless remains poignantly elusive, a shadow. This is the second gem published by the Dorothy Project I’ve Leggi tutto
You can read my review here: https://herheadinfilms.com/2018/09/03... I'm speechless. It's not only the best book I've read this year, it's one of the best I've ever read. I have finally found a book that speaks completely to me and my own feelings. I'm beyond moved. I'm transformed.
“The iconic woman of the 70’s is nothing but a woman wondering what she will do with her so-called liberty. She wonders what kind of lie she will be forced to invent in order to hide, at ease, from men, so that she will – finally – be left alone.” (Nathalie Léger) In this eerie and enchanting novel, Leggi tutto
De tijd, die tot oktober volgepland was met lezingen en lezingenreizen, is stilgezet. Ik heb de kans gegrepen om aan mijn nieuwe boek te werken. In een schrijfperiode voed ik me op een andere manier met boeken dan gewoonlijk. Alsof ik dan in andermans werk vooral het experiment opzoek en niet overwe Leggi tutto
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