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A colorful character can carry a documentary a long way, but when that colorful character exists primarily in the past tense, it isn’t carried quite so far. Director Lisa Immordino Vreeland looks into the life of Peggy Guggenheim, whose free spirit and liberated sensibility carried her from her privileged New York family through the artistic incubator of 1920s Paris, and into a career as forward-looking patron of—and early advocate for—dozens of crucial modern art figures like Jackson Pollock. Never-before-heard audio tapes from the interview sessions by Guggenheim’s biographer Jacqueline B. Weld, conducted in the last years of her life, provide a flavor of the woman beyond the talking heads attesting to her significance in the world of 20th-century art. Yet Guggenheim herself remains surprisingly enigmatic; this is a story less about who she was than what she did—and, more frequently, whom she did. No matter how many names are dropped as notches on her bedpost (Max Ernst! John Cage! Samuel Beckett!!), it all still feels mostly like a gracefully-executed episode of PBS' American Masters.
Official Site: submarinedeluxe.com/peggy.html
Director: Lisa Vreeland
Producer: Stanley Buchthal, David Koh, Dan Braun, Lisa Vreeland, Maja Hoffmann, Josh Braun and Bob Benton
Director: Lisa Vreeland
Producer: Stanley Buchthal, David Koh, Dan Braun, Lisa Vreeland, Maja Hoffmann, Josh Braun and Bob Benton
