

Regarding Susan Sontag
Ideas move me.
An intimate study of one of the most influential and provocative thinkers of the 20th century tracking feminist icon Susan Sontag’s seminal, life-changing moments through archival materials, accounts from friends, family, colleagues, and lovers, as well as her own words, as read by Patricia Clarkson.
Cast

Susan Sontag
Self (archive footage)

Patricia Clarkson
Susan Sontag (voice)

Noël Burch
Self

Lucinda Childs
Self
Mark Danner
Self

Nadine Gordimer
Self
Alice Kaplan
Self
Stephen Koch
Self
Eva Kollisch
Self

Fran Lebowitz
Self

Annie Leibovitz
Self
David Rieff
Self
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An intimate study of one of the most influential and provocative thinkers of the 20th century tracking feminist icon Susan Sontag’s seminal, life-changing moments through archival materials, accounts from friends, family, colleagues, and lovers, as well as her own words, as read by Patricia Clarkson.
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