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- HBO
- HBO
Summary Nancy Kates' documentary explores the life of the late author Susan Sontag, who passed away in 2004 from leukemia, with interviews with her sister, girlfriends, and her writings, read by by Patricia Clarkson.
- HBO
- HBO
Regarding Susan Sontag
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Summary Nancy Kates' documentary explores the life of the late author Susan Sontag, who passed away in 2004 from leukemia, with interviews with her sister, girlfriends, and her writings, read by by Patricia Clarkson.
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Metascore
Generally Favorable
Based on 4 Critic Reviews
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Metascore
Generally Favorable
Based on 4 Critic Reviews
79
75% Positive
3 Reviews
3 Reviews
25% Mixed
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0% Negative
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With cinematographer Sophia Constantinou, and a haunting musical score by Laura Karpman and Nora Kroll-Rosenbaum, Kates has created a fact-based profile, but with boldly evocative impressionist strokes that mirror the complexity of Sontag’s life and career.
[Sontag's] personal magnetism is very much part of the story.... This alone makes for a highly watchable film, though Kates also dresses the screen with poetical visual interludes.
Sontag, simply put, was a very interesting person, who fully inhabited some interesting times--which this film captures. But as to that genuine, lasting impact? Who knows: Regarding is so busy trying to capture this busy life, that it never gets around to an answer.
Rather than tackle Ms. Sontag’s ideas or their value head-on, the director, Nancy Kates, continually deflects the discussion along other lines: Ms. Sontag as closeted bisexual, serial heartbreaker, liberal provocateur, narcissist, celebrity, camera subject, Jew, cancer survivor.
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Production Company:
- HBO Documentary Films
- Question Why Films
Number of seasons: 0 Seasons
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Awards
Tribeca Film Festival
• 1 Win & 2 Nominations
Milan International Lesbian and Gay Film Festival
• 1 Win & 1 Nomination
FOCAL International Awards
• 1 Win & 1 Nomination
