Lawrence Durrell

Lawrence Durrell poet and writer, author of The Alexandria Quartet, satirist of diplomatic life in Esprit de Corps, car racer, jazz composer, sensualist and philosopher. Before he died in 1990 he chose Ian S. MacNiven, a New Yorker, to write about his life. This film was commissioned to coincide with the much awaited publication of the first authorized biography. Larry was designed by Providence to go through life like a small, blond firework, exploding ideas in other peoples minds, and then curling up with cat-like unctuousness and refusing to take any blame for the consequences - his brother Gerald wrote in My Family and Other Animals. A gallery of different portraits is unveiled: lover, husband, philosopher, satirist, comic, alcoholic and father. Prisms of the same mirror - painted by his friends, family and wonderful archives. Sex is as fragile as life and twice as interesting Larry wrote. His impudence, irony and insight are always there in the archives- whether hes teasing Malcom Muggeridge about sex, showing Sophia Loren around Israel, reminiscing about Paris- where he formed a literary trio with Henry Miller and Anais Nin, revisiting Alexandria and Greece or ambling round his beloved Provence where he spent the last years of his life.

Interviews include: family members, a lover, and a Tao Buddhist.

This film is not part of a series.

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