Lady Lazarus on camera

Sandra Lahire took 9 years to make a film on Sylvia Plath's poems, especially Lady Lazarus and the sumptuous Daddy.

Lahire describes the film as:

A visually woven response to Sylvia Plath’s own readings of her poetry… which celebrates her macabre humour and cinematic vision. A carousel of images in windows, an atmosphere of constant metamorphosis; her poetry as cinema.

I love Plath's voice; it's too rich to be true.

I also believe in how she differentiates finely between "real" and "seeming" dangers to our psychic health. Gentility, she says, poses a far greater danger to our psychic health than does overt displays of anger and violence. Gentility is order and the order is predicated on a certain squelching of subterranean chaos. Gentility can only go so far in keeping the chaos from rearing its ugly head in hidden forms.