Joan Didion: The Center Will Not Hold

Joan Didion: The Center Will Not Hold

201792 min7.3 / 10

An intimate, intellectually rigorous portrait of a literary master grappling with loss, mortality, and the meaning of a life spent observing the world.

Literary icon Joan Didion reflects on her remarkable career and personal struggles in this intimate documentary directed by her nephew, Griffin Dunne.

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