I hemmed and hawed, and he shook his head and with an “I knew it” smile on his face, said, “That’s the end of the interview. Could she not see that it was she, in her car, that represented the very danger she congratulated herself for pointing out? She produced sheaves of leaflets and laid each one lovingly on the table for me to study while behind her the baby looted her handbag, undetected.

These are very long stories, but the point is you never know how your film will reach people, and cannot foresee who will be its biggest and most influential supporters. Wolfgang and I had worked on my previous film, Tango Octogenario, and when I shared the idea with him, he was intrigued and said he’d love to be involved.

Instead, he wrote Anna Karenina, excavating the woman extant in the mother and demonstrating her power to destroy, for motherhood is a career in conformity from which no amount of subterfuge can liberate the soul without violence. She finds herself unable to reconcile her baby’s needs with the demands of her own selfhood: "To be a mother I must leave the telephone unanswered, work undone, arrangements unmet.

It would have been more pleasant for them inside: the imposition was so direct that I wrote as quickly as I could. A lover of literature, she wants to turn to the classics for guidance, but she realizes that she has never paid much attention to literary descriptions of parenthood, instead skimming them, feeling that they were not relevant to her. The film is about people who will not complete their work in their lifetime, and I had heard from a few people that Soleri became angry when he was asked, “when will Arcosanti be finished? I made four short films, sometime ago: Muti (2013), A Terrible Mistake (2011), Passion (2007) and Stuff-It (2007) - http://bit.In a brief introduction, Cusk notes that the memoir was written just six months after her first daughter’s birth and while Cusk was pregnant with her second daughter. As soon as her daughter, Albertine, is born, Cusk finds herself plunged into an exhausting round-the-clock feeding schedule. It might not occur to you that, just because it's a horrific experience doesn't make it interesting.