What would John Ford, this western filmmaker born in Maine in 1894, have filmed about this desert adventurer Georgia O'Keeffe? The great painter of America collected the bones in a barrel, endured the scorching heat to stay for hours on the ground, reinvented the star flag in three colors with a bovine skull as a trophy. This strong woman, passionately fallen in love with New Mexico, its arid mountains and pink like flesh at dawn, is a romantic, complex character, a fiercely autonomous being, both tender and hard. Like the heroines of the filmmaker, a male who overplayed his Irish origins and claimed to speak Gaelic in front of Maureen O'Hara, during the filming of
The Quiet Man
(1950) in an imagined Ireland.
At the same time intensely female and with the madness of a cowboy or an Indian, this artist is at the crossroads of Venus and Juno.
Pioneer of modernity
More classic, even more conventional, Evelyn Schels' film
Georgia O'Keeffe,
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