Puzzle of a downfall child / directed by Jerry Schatzberg ; screenplay by Adrian Joyce ; story by Jerry Schatzberg and Adrian Joyce ; produced by John Foreman.
Faye Dunaway, Barry Primus, Viveca Lindfors, Barry Morse, Roy Scheider. Title from disc label. Originally released as a motion picture in 1971. Wide screen. Special features: audio commentary by film historian/filmmaker Daniel Kremer and film historian/podcaster Bill Ackerman; interview with director Jerry Schatzberg; alternate studio-edit opening; Trailers from hell with Larry Karaszewski; theatrical trailer.
Summary:
Lou Andreas Sand, a beautiful but disturbed young woman whose life has fallen into a downward spiral including drug use and a nervous breakdown, lives alone at a windswept beach cottage. Fashion photographer turned director Aaron Reinhardt visits the former model and records their conversations, planning to develop her story, a life of delusion and lies, into a film.
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