Olympia
A compelling profile of a woman who's defiantly marched to the beat of her own drum.
Olympia
Directed by Harry Mavromichalis, this award-winning documentary is a sublimely intimate portrait of a woman becoming her own woman on her own terms to assert a gigantic creative force into the world. Rebelling against her old world panty-sniffing suspicious Greek mother to assert her strong sexual drive, fighting the feeling she was “too ethnic” amid the Boston Brahmin at BU, and starting her own theatre company in New Jersey instead of waiting for the phone to ring, Olympia Dukakis models how to live life with blazing courage. As fellow actors Laura Linney, Diane Ladd, Whoopi Goldberg and Austin Pendleton testify, Olympia is “totally open and crazy”, which is the marker of her absolute sanity.
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Runtime
100
Language
English
Director
Harry Mavromichalis
Writer(s)
Harry Mavromichalis,
Sam Eggers
Cast
Whoopi Goldberg,
Laura Linney,
Diane Ladd,
Lynne Cohen,
Lainie Kazan,
Austin Pendleton,
Ed Asner,
Armistead Maupin,
Michael Dukakis
FEATURED REVIEW
Frank Scheck, Hollywood Reporter
Harry Mavromichalis' documentary about Oscar-winning actress Olympia Dukakis delivers an uncommonly personal, cinema verite-style portrait of its fascinating, iconoclastic subject. Following Dukakis over the course of several years, beginning when she turned 80, while providing a chronicle of her ...
Played at
Laemmle Virtual Cinema 7.10.20 - 8.06.20
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