I watched this late last night and what a great profile of Anita it is; great clips and great interviews and the dialogue was extraordinarily honest it seem to me . . .the American voice over reading from her posthumously discovered autobiography was a mistake but hey . . . . . whatcha gonna do, apparently it was Scarlett Johansson? Dreadful sci-fi actress and awful voice but heck . . . . . the content more than made up for it. [Didn’t recognise her at first and found myself always wanting to hear a teutonic or at least European accent to the voice over but I get it] Volker Schlöndorff and Prince ‘Stash' - Stanislas Klossowski de Rola (son of the fine artist Balthus) more than made up for it
Anita at Hyde Park
the deeply flawed and insecure Brian here dressed by Anita
‘pretty, pretty, pretty’ Anita costume shot from Barbarella
The Dark Angel
Barbarella gets to it!
Performance - caused troubles . . . . Michele Breton (to die from heroin OD, Anita and Mick
“I didn’t really fancy Mick but if you are spending all day every day in bed filming things happen"
Beautifully done for the most part and as we thought Keith comes over as lovely, self effacing and deeply in love.
Bryan not so much! (He beat her up but not when Keith was there!)
Obsessed, possessive and violently insecure and Keith open and bright but unsure what on earth Anita saw in him, which is really rather sweet.
The children were a delight and a revelation and despite the clear deep seriousness affecting lovely Marlon who is, if nothing else, ever his father’s son, the lovely ‘Dandelion' Angela was a revelation and I had never heard her interviewed before. Jake Weber’s account of being children in the chaos was extraordinary
The story of the loss of the youngest, Tara, from cot death syndrome was heart wrenching. Keith on tour did not break the ’show must go on’ adage and was his way of coping somehow. . . . when we didn’t really know what cot death was Anita blamed herself and was in the depths of screaming torturous despair so that the other children had to be taken away . . . . . . desperately sad and the beginning of the end of the Keef n Anita enclave . . . . . .
Hyde Park
Watch it if you can (or haven’t!)
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