WHAT SHE SAID: THE ART OF PAULINE KAEL

By Rob GARVER

AUTLOOK FILMSALES - as SALES All rights, World except North America

Documentary - Completed 2019


Festivals
& Awards

Berlinale - Berlin IFF 2019
Panorama
Karlovy Vary IFF 2019
Out of the Past
    • Year of production
    • 2019
    • Genres
    • Documentary
    • Countries
    • CANADA
    • Languages
    • ENGLISH
    • Duration
    • 95 mn
    • Director(s)
    • Rob GARVER
    • Producer(s)
    • Rob GARVER, Glen ZIPPER, Sean STUART
    • Synopsis
    • Pauline Kael (1919-2001) was likely the most powerful, and personal, movie critic of the 20th century. Writing for The New Yorker and publishing a dozen best-selling books, she ruthlessly pursued what made a movie or an actor’s performance work, or not, and why. Her passion made her both admired and despised amongst her readers.
      Pauline’s own story is one of struggle and obsession: the fight to establish her voice and have it heard, and raise a daughter on her own in a time when the obstacles were high. Her career began as the Hollywood studio system ended, and finished just as the digital age was born.
      The latter golden age of movies of the 1960s and 1970s are the focus of this film that pursues the question of what made Pauline Kael’s work so individual, so influential — and so damned good.