By Marquise Lepage
THE LOST GARDEN looks at the life and times of Alice Guy-Blache (1873-1968), arguably, the first narrative filmmaker in the world. Creating her first motion picture in France in the 1890s, Alice Guy-Blache went on to found her own successful production company in the US. Producing and writing more than 700 films. Clips from her films, which were cleverly edited to illustrate events from her personal life, are intercut with revealing excerpts from TV interviews with Guy-Blache, photographs, reminiscences by family members, and interviews with film historians. A fitting tribute to one of cinema's most fearless pioneers.
Review
~ "3 1/2 stars. Highly recommended... a superb passport to the fin de siecle cinematic days...a fitting and wonderfully realized homage and rescue from obscurity, lovingly narrated by Alice's granddaughter." - Video Librarian
Notes
~ Melbourne International Film Festival
~ San Francisco International Film Festival
~ New Directors/New Films, NY
Award
~ Gemeaux Award, Montreal, Best Documentary
~ Columbus Int'l Film Festival, Honorable Mention
~ Nat Educ Media Competition, Bronze Apple
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