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The Lost Generation
A Rose Is A Rose Is A Rose
Cocteau, Dos Passos, Gerald Murphy, Fitzgerald, Hemingway, Satie, Stravinsky, Diaghilev, Pound, Cummings, Joyce, Picasso, Alice B.
Toklas, Gertrude Stein, Sylvia Beach, MacLeish, Malcom Cowley, Josephine Baker, Man Ray, all were there on the Left Bank in the , coming and going, leaving behind their previous lives along with disillusions and prohibition.
It was all art, mostly avant-garde if not totally nihilistic.
It's still a little unnerving.
The documentary focuses on American expatriate writers living in Paris in the s,including Ernest Hemingway, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Archibald.
You have to see an ordinary tea cup on its saucer with a teaspoon by its side -- all covered with rabbit fur.
Not all of it was Paris. That was the acknowledged center of it all, but tentacles reached out to places like the summer Riviera.
Well, why not? The dollar was all powerful in the s in France and you could do well on one hundred dollars a month. F. Scott Fitzgerald's royalties made it possible for him and Zelda to set up house at the Ritz and dine on beluga cavia
