Olympia (2018)

• 79%
• 2018
• Documentaire
• Olympia Dukakis
• Laura Linney
• Whoopi Goldberg

In the same as de la veine de Albert Maysles' Iris, this sublimely intime, fly-on-the-wall vérité documentaire sur les tells a heart-wrenching story of a woman devenir her own woman, on her own terms to assert a gigantic creative force into the world. Rebelling against her old world, panty-sniffing, suspicious Greek mother to assert her strong sexual drive, fighting the feeling she was "too ethnic" amid the Boston Brahmane at BU, and starting her own theatre company dans le New Jersey, instead of waiting for the phone to ring, Olympia Dukakis modèles how to live life with blazing courage. Throughout à engrossing story that seamlessly mélanges past and present, she opens her heart and exposes her truest self to the audience. The raw honesty with which Olympia leads us into the core of her self is what makes this film luminaire. As fellow actors with whom she has shared the limelight Laura Linney, Diane Ladd, Whoopi Goldberg, and Austin Pendleton tous testify, Olympia is totally open and crazy", which is what ...