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York University, as an under1 graduate, and as soon as he left 5 the university’s graduate Film > School, he headed east to ) France, where he felt a connec> tion. He’d been bom in Tripoli, Libya, where his American ? father was stationed in the ; Army after WWII, and his ; mother, a French pied noir, was ; living with her family'in Tripoli.
Back from Europe in 1971, ; Maxwell worked in the motion picture industry first in New 5 York at the PBS station, NET? 13, making documentaries and adapting an Albert Camus short f story and winning an Emmy nomination for best direction for 1 “Verna: USO Girl,” based on a Paul Gallico short story which got the attention of Hollywood producers, who asked him to direct “Little Darlings” for Para/ mount, with Tatum O’Neal and Matt Dillon.
At that juncture, he became, as they say in Hollywood, “bicoastal,” meaning he lived simultaneously in New York and in the Los Angeles area.
Maxwell is a comfortable looking man with dark hair and a relaxed, thoughtful mien. He wears shorts with cargo pockets and fishing shirts, in keeping with his country status. He loves the outdoor life, hiking and chopping wood, and he clearly appreciates the open spaces for his three pet West Highland terriers.
He had been looking for a place to five in France and in the counties around and including Rappahannock, from Loudoun in the north to Orange in the south. But after 9/11, he said, “It was impractical living abroad. Both France and Rappahannock are equally beautiful, but this was more sensible.” And he settled on Rappahannock.
The roots he is putting down include the residence in Rappahannock County of both his children, Olivia, 32, a songwriter and singer who lives in Little Washington, and his son, Jonathan, 30, a bartender at Griffin Inn in Flint Hill.
For a place to live, he has bought a property on the top of Fogg Mountain, near Flint Hill.. The renovation of the house will result in a single-story 7,800square-foot home with a swimming pool and grape arbor looking north with a clear view into Culpeper County and far beyond. It should be completed in six weeks.
The interior of the house, with broad open views north and south, contains a Great Room, a large library with floorto-ceiling bookshelves, a film “screening” room, wine cellar, a gym with a ballerina’s mirrored waft and barre, and a room with a tub and sink in which to wash his three pet terriers, all on 75 secluded acres of wooded land.
“This is a very special part of the world,” he said. “And part of that is the people, who have a vivid sense of history. Virginians have it in general more deeply than a lot of other places in America.”
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