Let It Come Down: The Life of Paul Bowles
One of the most enigmatic artists of the 20th century, writer, composer and wanderer Paul Bowles (1910-1999) is profiled by a filmmaker who has been obsessed with his genius since age nineteen. Set against the dramatic landscape of North Africa, the mystery of Bowles (famed author ofThe Sheltering Sky) begins to unravel in Jennifer Baichwal's poetic and movingLet It Come Down: The Life of Paul Bowles. Rare, candid interviews with the reclusive Bowles--at home in Tangier, as well as in New York during an extraordinary final reunion with Allen Ginsberg and William Burroughs--are intercut with conflicting views of his supporters and detractors. At the time in his mid-eighties, Bowles speaks with unprecedented candor about his work, his controversial private life and his relationships with Gertrude Stein, Tennessee Williams, Truman Capote, the Beats, and his wife and fellow author Jane Bowles.DVD Special Features- Additional interview footage with Paul Bowles discussing modernism, Moby Dick, love, children and Gertrude Stein- Outtakes of Bowles' final meeting with William Burroughs and Allen Ginsberg in 1995- An essay by director Jennifer Baichwal