Joan Didion: The Center Will Not Hold
Oct 11, 2017 | IMDB 7.3
92 min Watch NowDocumentary
Griffin Dunne’s years-in-the-making documentary portrait of his aunt Joan Didion moves with the spirit of her uncannily lucid writing: the film simultaneously expands and zeroes in, covering a vast stretch of turbulent cultural history with elegance and candor.
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