Joyce Carol Oates: A Body in the Service of Mind
Sep 16, 2022 | IMDB 7.4
94 min Watch NowDocumentary
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.
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