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Paris Was a Woman

Country: United Kingdom, Language: English, 75 mins

  • Director: Greta Schiller
  • Writer: Andrea Weiss
  • Producer: Frances Berrigan; Jennifer Romine

CGiii Comment

Utterly fascinating...Paris in days gone by...

Shakespeare and Company, the bookshop, although not the original - still manages to attract the names...keeping alive the ghosts from this film.

Perhaps...those were the days.

A fine film.


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The(ir) Blurb...

Female (many of them lesbian) artists, writers, photographers, designers, and adventurers settled in Paris between the wars. They embraced France, some developed an ex-pat culture, and most cherished a way of life quite different than the one left behind. Archival footage, music, paintings, literature, and interviews with folks who were there. Berenice Abbott, Gisele Freund, Djuna Barnes, Natalie Barney, Sylvia Beach, Adrienne Monnier, Gertrude Stein, Alice B. Toklas, Colette, Janet Flanner and others. In addition, Matisse, Picasso, Hemingway, and James Joyce.

Cast & Characters

Juliet Stevenson as Narrator;
Maureen All; Gillian Hanna;
Margaret Robertson;
Shari Benstock as Herself;
John Bernard as Himself;
Berthe Cleyrerque as Herself;
Janet Flanner as Herself;
Giselle Freund as Herself;
Samuel Steward as Himself;
Catharine Stimpson as Herself;
Josephine Baker as Herself;
Colette as Herself;
James Joyce as Himself;
Malcolm Muggeridge as Himself