This compelling film profile of Canadian writer Elizabeth Smart uses archival material, interviews with family and friends, readings and dramatic re-creations to portray a writer who was mythologized in her own lifetime.
Elizabeth Smart died in England in 1986, at the age of 72. She is best known for her novel “By Grand Central Station I Sat Down and Wept,” published in 1945, a story of passion and obsession inspired by her love affair with the English poet George Barker. The years subsequent to that dramatic period - the complex relationship she developed with Baker, the period of literary exile and her eventual recognition - are also examined. This film sheds light not only on a writer and her work, but on the forces that work against creativity, and the conflicting claims of life and art.
Stars Jackie Burroughs as Elizabeth Smart. Narration by Michael Ondaatje.
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