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    Writer of O

    Pola Rapaport 2004 France color 80min French Betacam
    WRITER OF O is a creative documentary on the hidden author of the world-famous, erotic novel STORY OF O. Known for forty years as Pauline Réage, the author chose at 86 to reveal herself as Dominique Aury, a mild-mannered literary editor for Gallimard, the most prestigious French publishing house.
    The contrast of her two disparate personalities forms the center of this hybrid film, which sets documentary footage of her and her contemporaries against dramatized scenes from her erotic novel and fictionalized scenes from her life during the period in which she wrote her scandalous book.

    Director

    Pola Rapaport

    Filmmaker living in New York. 2002 Fellow of the John Simon Guggenheim Foundation and of the New York Foundation for the Arts. Director of WRITER OF O (2004), portrait of the elusive author of the best-selling erotic novel Story of O. Previous work includes FAMILY SECRET, the story of the filmmaker's discovery of her long-lost secret Romanian brother (2000, Grand Prix SCAM, France, Best Documentary of the Year); BLIND LIGHT (1998), a story of a photographer’s peak experience in a villa in Italy, starring Edie Falco and BROKEN MEAT (1990), portrait of the mad poet Alan Granville.

    Pola Rapaport

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