One of the most enigmatic artists of the 20th century, writer, composer and wanderer Paul Bowles (1910-1999) is profiled by a filmmaker who has been obsessed with his genius since age nineteen. Set against the dramatic landscape of North Africa, the mystery of Bowles (famed author of The Sheltering Sky) begins to unravel in Jennifer Baichwal's poetic and moving Let It Come Down: The Life of Paul Bowles. Rare, candid interviews with the reclusive Bowles--at home in Tangier, as well as in New York during an extraordinary final reunion with Allen Ginsberg and William Burroughs--are intercut with conflicting views of his supporters and detractors. At the time in his mid-eighties, Bowles speaks with unprecedented candor about his work, his controversial private life and his relationships with Gertrude Stein, Tennessee Williams, Truman Capote, the Beats, and his wife and fellow author Jane Bowles.
Let It Come Down: The Life of Paul Bowles has generally received mixed reviews.
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Let It Come Down: The Life of Paul Bowles was released in 1999 and has generally received mixed reviews.
Online reviewers have written 2 reviews, giving Let It Come Down: The Life of Paul Bowles (1999) an average rating of 58%.
Overall, cinema-goers and film critics broadly agree on the merits of the movie, with critics giving it an average score of 60% and users giving an average score of 60%.
With a score of 58%, Let It Come Down: The Life of Paul Bowles is roughly the same as the average Cinafilm score for movies made in 1999, which stands at 59%.
Other movies from 1999 with similar scores include films like American Pie, Idle Hands and Godzilla 2000: Millennium.
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