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The lady in the book

by Gesa MATTHIES

Infos

Original title : The Lady In The Book

Director : Gesa MATTHIES

Production : Ana Films

Duration : 60 Minutes

Year : 2016

Original version : English

Subtitled version : French

Country : France

Synopsis

Sylvia Plath, famous author of 20th century is an American poetry and feminist icon since her brutal death at the age of thirty. The film offers a dive into her world and into her work by meeting women who are now on the scene where she grew up : the residential suburbs of Boston and Smith College University in the back-country of Massachusetts. Sylvia Plath was 18 at the beginning of the 50s. The words of Sylvia and those of today's young women form the voice of a feminine identity that has been constructed against authority, dogma, and conformism.

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