The New Yorker November 25, 1996
PARIS WAS A WOMAN
The documentary director Greta Schiller’s examination
of Paris modernism in the twenties and thirties is a confection
of American expatriates, French and American lesbians, and
avant-garde art and thought. Making impeccable use of old
photographs, film footage, and recordings, Schiller gives
this world of literary salons and unconventional bookshops
a surprising amount of verve. Giants like Picasso, Joyce,
Janet Flanner, Djuna Barnes, and Gertrude Stein (who, looking
like a cook on a pirate ship, dominates the proceedings) come
across as positively fun-loving, and Paris blooms like a rose.
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