Puzzle of a Downfall Child

Followed by “Frames: Jerry Schatzberg” Photography Exhibit Opening

Before The Panic in Needle Park and Scarecrow, Jerry Schatzberg announced himself with this mesmerizing debut feature. Faye Dunaway delivers a remarkable performance as Lou Andreas Sand, a reclusive former model whose grip on reality appears increasingly fragile. 

Inspired in part by the life of model Anne St. Marie, the film follows a photographer-filmmaker (Barry Primus) as he records the recollections of a former fashion icon whose memories reveal a life marked by beauty, success, and profound instability. Visually striking and psychologically complex, Schatzberg’s first feature reveals the eye of a master photographer and the sensibility of a major American filmmaker in the making.