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Joyce Carol Oates: A Body in the Service of Mind (2022)

09/16/2022 Documentary 1h 34m
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6.6/10

Overview

Prolific writer Joyce Carol Oates has remained intensely private. Until now. Through a long-standing friendship, and persistent inquiry, director Stig Bjorkman is granted unprecedented access to document her mornings of longhand writing, her walks with her husband—to visit her within her solitude.

Dominika Daubenbüchel

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Stina Gardell

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Stig Björkman

Writer

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Joyce Carol Oates

Joyce Carol Oates

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Laura Dern

Laura Dern

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Reviews

A review by Brent Marchant

Written on September 13, 2023

Telling the story of a talented and prolific artist can be quite a challenge: What should be included? What should be excluded? And how should the narrative effectively fuse the personal and professional sides of the artist’s life? It’s a task that’s easy to get wrong (and, unfortunately, it happens far too often in many contemporary film biographies). So it’s indeed comforting to see one that gets things right, as is the case with this well-crafted documentary about writer Joyce Carol Oates, author of more than 100 books (many of them award winners) in multiple genres, both under her own name and several pseudonyms. On top of that, though, she has also developed a renowned reputation as a professor and as an outspoken and eloquent liberal social and political critic, both through ...

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