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  • 2017
  • Netflix
  • 1 h 34 m
  • 2017
  • Netflix
  • 1 h 34 m
Joan Didion: The Center Will Not Hold

Summary Across more than 50 years of essays, novels, screenplays, and criticism, Joan Didion has been our premier chronicler of the ebb and flow of America’s cultural and political tides with observations on her personal – and our own – upheavals, downturns, life changes, and states of mind. In the intimate, extraordinary documentary Joan Didion...

Directed By: Griffin Dunne

  • 2017
  • Netflix
  • 1 h 34 m
  • 2017
  • Netflix
  • 1 h 34 m

Joan Didion: The Center Will Not Hold

Metascore Generally Favorable Based on 9 Critic Reviews
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Summary Across more than 50 years of essays, novels, screenplays, and criticism, Joan Didion has been our premier chronicler of the ebb and flow of America’s cultural and political tides with observations on her personal – and our own – upheavals, downturns, life changes, and states of mind. In the intimate, extraordinary documentary Joan Didion...

Directed By: Griffin Dunne

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88
Oct 27, 2017
The fact that it was made by her nephew, actor/filmmaker Griffin Dunne, gives it a warmth and intimacy that might not have graced a more standard documentary.
By Godfrey Cheshire FULL REVIEW
80
Oct 31, 2017
Seeing the breadth of Didion’s work and its impact on the culture represented cumulatively delivers an unexpected shock to the system.
By April Wolfe FULL REVIEW
80
Oct 23, 2017
Her ability to take in the chaos and darkness of the ’70s and find some kind of acceptance through her writing is what makes her as relevant as ever.
By Emily Yoshida FULL REVIEW
70
Oct 26, 2017
It's that the closeness with Dunne, as well as his complete familiarity with the boldface-names life she and her husband led in both Los Angeles and New York, has given this film a quality of personal intimacy that makes it moving and involving.
By Kenneth Turan FULL REVIEW
70
Oct 13, 2017
Didion speaks very bluntly here, and sometime shockingly.
By Dan Callahan FULL REVIEW
60
Oct 26, 2017
Its workmanlike cinematic language can’t quite capture the urgency and expansiveness of Didion’s vision as a writer, and how keenly and bitingly she managed to forecast the insanities that plague our time.
By Alissa Wilkinson FULL REVIEW
50
Oct 24, 2017
It's an exercise in joviality, unflinching in its love for Joan Didion, and unwilling to be much more.
By Greg Cwik FULL REVIEW

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Production Company Didion Doc
Release Date Oct 27, 2017
Duration 1 h 34 m
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Website http://www.didiondoc.com/
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Awards

American Cinema Editors, USA
• 1 Nomination
Florida Film Critics Circle Awards
• 1 Nomination
News & Documentary Emmy Awards
• 1 Nomination

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