Let It Come Down: The Life of Paul Bowles (1998)

Name: Let It Come Down: The Life of Paul Bowles
Genre: Documentary
Released: 2012-04-23T16:39:12+02:00
Cast: Paul Bowles, William S. Burrooughs, Allen Ginsberg

Documentary | 75 minutes

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Genre: Documentary

Duration: 75 minuten

Country: Canada

Directed by: Jennifer Baichwal

Stars: Paul Bowles and Allen Ginsberg

IMDb score: 6,9 (141)

Releasedate: 1 April 1999

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Let It Come Down: The Life of Paul Bowles plot

An attempt to describe and fathom the life of the mysterious expat and writer Paul Bowles. Bowles was also a composer and translator. He grew up in America, but left for Morocco in 1947, where he wrote the successful novel 'The Sheltering Sky'. Using old home videos and interviews with, among others, William S. Burroughs, Allen Ginsberg and his wife Jane who accompanied him for fifty years in Morocco. Shown is a man who is close to death, but who has found peace with himself and his past. He talks about his philosophy of writing (or rather, the lack of it), his life with Jane, his homosexuality and his complex relationship with his 'adoptive country' Morocco.