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Film Forum presents a special event of Puzzle of a Downfall Child, with director Jerry Schatzberg in person.
Faye Dunaway in Puzzle of a Downfall Child
Fashion photographer turned director Aaron Reinhardt (Barry Primus) visits a withdrawn colleague and ex-lover at her windswept island cottage.
By taping conversations with former model Lou Andreas Sand (Faye Dunaway) and developing her story for film, Aaron hopes “to help her put the fragments together, to sort out and focus on the reality.”
Flashback several years to the arrival of prim, high strung Lou in Manhattan. After bowling over agent Peggy McCavage, the gorgeous, feline-looking Lou is an immediate success in the fashion industry.
Still, she’s frantic with fear about her work, becoming neurotically dependent upon pills, young friend Aaron, and her possessive photographer.
Lou agrees to marry art director Mark (Roy Schieder), but sabotages the relationship by standing him up at the alter.She becomes so afraid of her own desires that she either picks up anonymous men in bars, or makes men she’s already involved with pretend to be strangers before going home with them.
But is this a dream or reality?
First film by fashion photographer Jerry Schatzberg. Screenplay derived from recorded interviews of 50′s supermodel Anne St.Marie and written by Carole Eastman.
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