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Synopsis: REGARDING SUSAN SONTAG is an intimate and nuanced investigation into the life of one of the most influential and provocative thinkers of the 20th century. Passionate and gracefully outspoken throughout her career, Susan Sontag became one of the most important literary, political and feminist icons of her generation. The documentary explores Sontag's life through archival materials, accounts from friends, family, colleagues, and lovers, as well as her own words, as read by Patricia Clarkson. From her early infatuation with books to her first experience in a gay bar; from her early marriage to her last lover, REGARDING SUSAN SONTAG is a fascinating look at a towering cultural critic and writer whose works on photography, war, illness, and terrorism still resonate today.
Genre: Documentary
Director(s): Nancy D. Kates
Production: HBO Documentary
  2 wins & 3 nominations.
 
IMDB:
6.8
Rotten Tomatoes:
83%
Year:
2014
100 min
50 Views


ZWERLING:
And then I took her to

Peggy's Bar, and that was the

night we both got very drunk

and we started making out

together, and she was wild.

I mean, she was so...

she was so naive

and so innocent.

She'd never had

any kind of sex.

She probably necked with boys

in high school, but I mean it

was not anything

real, you know,

because men left her cold.

WOMAN AS SONTAG:

I know the truth now.

I know how good and

right it is to love.

I have in some part been

given permission to live.

Everything begins from now.

I am reborn.

ZWERLING:
And then I left.

I went to Paris.

Susan went to Chicago.

HAIDU:
How Sue became

Susan Sontag led

through Philip Rieff.

I was assigned to Philip Rieff's

social science class

at the University of Chicago.

After, I think, 2 or 3 weeks,

I called her and said,

"You've got to

go hear this guy.

He's a brilliant lecturer

who manages to put together

Freud and Marx."

So she went, and

apparently 10 days later

they were engaged.

Um, that was not

my recommendation.

WOMAN, AS SONTAG:

At 17, I met a thin,

heavy-thighed balding man who

talked and talked, snobbishly,

bookishly, and called

me "Sweet."

After a few days,

I married him.

We talked for 7 years.

WOMAN:
It was

a very small wedding.

We went afterwards to Bob's

Big Boy for a hamburger.

She and I were

giggling a little.

That I remember, that we just

each caught the other's eye

and that was it.

When I visited them in

Cambridge, they seemed totally

close, inseparable.

How much of it was intellectual,

and how much was not?

I mean,

there had to have been,

at some point, some physical

attraction somewhere,

and they certainly

acted like there was.

They were just really kind

of like they were one person.

WOMAN, AS SONTAG:

I had a difficult birth.

David was big.

A lot of pain.

I wanted to be knocked out,

not to know anything.

[Woman, as Sontag]

If only I get the fellowship

to Oxford, then at least I'll

know if I'm anything

outside the domestic stage,

The feathered nest.

I think for a while it was

just really fine, but people

change in their marriages,

and obviously she did.

He did not.

WOMAN, AS SONTAG:

In marriage, I have suffered

a certain loss of personality.

At first the loss was

pleasant, easy; now it aches

and stirs up my general

disposition to be malcontented

with a new fierceness.

Just got the fellowship.

Study philosophy in Oxford.

WOMAN:
She had made

arrangements for her

husband's parents to take

care of the child.

But to today's parents,

it's just unthinkable.

Because she was so young when

she had her child, she hadn't

been able to live out

her own adolescence.

I think she just wanted to

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