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A halt-century after making her last feature, Riefenstahl is still the world’s most controversial director; her name summons the conflicts of defiant artistry and compromised morality.
Director Ray Muller’s work is a galloping, galvanizing three hours in the company of a supremely dogged adventurer. “Her enthusiasm is so intense,” Muller says. “It is a quality I wish more filmmakers of this generation shared.” Riefenstahl tirelessly revists the sites of her triumphs and debacles, defends her life, argues with the first man in 60 years who has tried to direct her. “When the subject was art, diving, things she likes,” he recalls, “she was charming, interesting, a wonderful per~ son. But she is still a ‘30’s diva, after all, and not accustomed to being crossed. By the second day, I was asking prickly questions, and she was having fits!”
RAAC is showing this superb documentary at 8 p.m., Aug. 13, at The Theatre on Gay Street. (Unrated-188 minutes) (In English and German with English subtitles)
(Note: Miramax, the distributor of “Life is Beautiful”, scheduled for Aug. 27, has notified RAAC that the film will not be available for our theater at this time. The movie has now been dubbed in English (from Italian) and opened in theaters nation-wide on Aug. 7.)
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