'Joan Didion: The Center Will Not Hold' Q&A | Griffin Dunne | NYFF55

Griffin Dunne’s years-in-the-making documentary portrait of his aunt Joan Didion moves with the spirit of her uncannily lucid writing: the film simultaneously expands and zeroes in, covering a vast stretch of turbulent cultural history with elegance and candor, and grounded in the illuminating presence and words of Didion herself. This is most certainly a film about loss-the loss of a solid American center, the personal losses of a husband and a child-but Didion describes everything she sees and experiences so attentively, so fully, and so bravely that she transforms the very worst of life into occasions for understanding. A Netflix release.
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I watch the documentary at least once a month. It’s therapy for me. I saw the play in 2006 with Ms Redgrave. I was shaking as I left the theatre

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Would be nice if they released the extra footage in some sort of extended version

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What a gift this woman and this movie is. Thank you.

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I have been watched the doc for 0ver 10 times. Love it

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Can you share thoughts on how best to introduce Didion's work to readers?

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