The Ladies Almanack (2017)
Overview
In Paris in 1928 American Djuna Barnes writes a farcical novel about the lovers, friends and publishing elite that make up "lesbian Don Juan" Natalie Clifford Barney's sordid salon. Dolly Wilde, Elizabeth Gramont, Romaine Brooks, Mimi Franchetti, Colette, Gertrude Stein, Liane de Pougy, Radclyffe Hall, Mina Loy, Janet Flanner and many more of the finest minds of her time enter her colorful book. Concocted to cheer up Barnes' ailing girlfriend, Thelma Wood, who is sick in the hospital, the story ultimately outlives the romance.
Cast
Guinevere Turner
Liane De Pougy
Eileen Myles
Monique Wittig (narrator)
Hélène Cixous
Self
Bernadette Santos Schwegel
Joella Loy
Nessa Norich
Romaine BrooksRecommendations
Don Juan DeMarco
Fading Gigolo
Adventures of Don Juan
Cuban Fury
Our Kind of Traitor
Just Like Heaven
Ladies First
The Danish Girl
Valmont
Hammett
Written on the Wind
Nappily Ever After
Original Sin
Leave Her to Heaven
Butterflies Are Free
Tell It to the Bees
How to Be Single
A Dangerous Method
The Map That Leads to You
You're Never Too Young