
REGARDING SUSAN SONTAG is an intimate and nuanced investigation into the life of one of the most influential and provocative thinkers of the 20th century. Passionate and gracefully outspoken throughout her career, Susan Sontag became one of the most important literary, political and feminist icons of her generation. The documentary explores Sontag's life through archival materials, accounts from friends, family, colleagues, and lovers, as well as her own words, as read by Pat... (Full plot summary below)
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REGARDING SUSAN SONTAG is an intimate and nuanced investigation into the life of one of the most influential and provocative thinkers of the 20th century. Passionate and gracefully outspoken throughout her career, Susan Sontag became one of the most important literary, political and feminist icons of her generation. The documentary explores Sontag's life through archival materials, accounts from friends, family, colleagues, and lovers, as well as her own words, as read by Patricia Clarkson. From her early infatuation with books to her first experience in a gay bar; from her early marriage to her last lover, REGARDING SUSAN SONTAG is a fascinating look at a towering cultural critic and writer whose works on photography, war, illness, and terrorism still resonate today.
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| San Francisco ChronicleDavid WiegandIf you take a less passive approach to the film and connect the multiple dots Kates and co-writer John Haptas have positioned through the 105-minute film, you'll begin to understand what made [Sontag] tick. |
| AutostraddleSarah FonsecaWhile it would be easy to create a sterilized portrait of the accomplished intellectual, Kates refrains from doing so. |
| Los Angeles TimesRobert LloydThis... makes for a highly watchable film. |
| VogueNathan HellerAs Kates's documentary makes clear, few authors seized as fully the range of experience, intellectual and physical, that the writing life allowed, and used it to help with the crucial naming of their world. |
| Movie MezzanineAnna TatarskaHighlighting the personal sphere of the self-proclaimed "genius-schmuck" here seems not only justified, but important. |
| User ReviewMarco EThis film attempts to unravel the complex life of a self proclaimed genius, and it does achieve this on so many levels by revealing her lust for love and life; but perhaps most profoundly, the melancholic relationship she appears to have with her celebrity and private persona. |
| User ReviewSteve WInteresante documental sobre la famosa Sontag. |