Saturday, December 25, 2021

Joan Didion: The Center Will Not Hold

 


Joan Didion's death on Thursday prompted me to move up in my Netflix watchlist the 2017 doc, The Center Will Not Hold. It's not just a splendid personal statement, directed by her nephew actor Griffin Dunne, but a celebration of Didion's unique expressiveness, written and spoken.

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