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
Fading Gigolo
Cuban Fury
Adventures of Don Juan
Just Like Heaven
Our Kind of Traitor
Ladies First
The Danish Girl
Fifty Shades Darker
Valmont
Original Sin
Written on the Wind
How to Be Single
The Map That Leads to You
Tell It to the Bees
A Dangerous Method
The Last Sunrise
Cold Souls
Mrs. Harris Goes to Paris
Nappily Ever After
Poor Things