Lady Lazarus
MovieTitle | Lady Lazarus |
User score | 7 |
Release date | Jan 21, 1992 |
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Director | Sandra Lahire |
Production country | United Kingdom |
Production companies | BFI |
Run time | 24 min. |
A cinematographic response to Sylvia Plath’s Lady Lazarus with Plath’s own readings of her poetry. A carousel of images in windows, an atmosphere of constant metamorphosis; her poetry as cinema. Audo outtakes of Plath reading from "Cut," "Daddy," "Lady Lazarus," "Ariel," "Ouija," as well as excerpts from a 1962 interview. Mixing images of Plath's obsessions (ouija boards, horses, violent self-harm) with photographs of the poet and her work, the film delves deeply into an existence that Plath herself, in a voice-over interview, calls "living on air."