5 films about writers in crisis

Films about existential crises are always something frequent year after year in the cinema. More and a writer in crisis? The expression of ideas on a sheet of paper, a typewriter, a computer or any place where technical variables are expressed, or even writing styles have always taken us into conflicting universes of brilliant minds over time. To reflect on this, in works based on real events or not, here are 5 films about writers in crisis:

Midnight in Paris

One of American filmmaker Woody Allen’s most acclaimed films, in Midnight in Paris we follow a plot where on a pleasure trip to Paris with his wife and in-laws, a writer quite dazzled by the features exceptional experiences of this beautiful city, discovers the French capital alone at dawn going back decades in the same city where he meets intellectuals and people he admires in his present.

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Shirley

In the plot, we meet the rude, inconvenient, provocative, eccentric, predictor of the future, who suffers from internal conflicts, has a complicated view of the world, lives daily dramas in her marriage, the writer Shirley Jackson (Elisabeth Moss) who spends her life secluded in a comfortable home with her husband Stanley (Michael Stuhlbarg), a prestigious college professor. With the arrival of the young couple Rosa (Odessa Young) and Fred (Logan Lerman) to live for a time with Shirley and Stanley, the new dynamic will greatly upset the depressive routine of the first who, among other achievements, embarks on a heartbreaking analysis of herself and all that she creates in her praised lyrics, influencing the immature and inexperienced Rosa.

Welcome Violet!

Filmed in Ushuaia, in Argentine Patagonia, in the plot we meet the writer Ana (Débora Falabella) who decides to embark on a journey towards a kind of creative laboratory where she and other writers take part in a dynamic led by the enigmatic Holden (Darío Grandinetti), a man full of personality who had risen to fame in the literary world after burning copies of his books on launch day. The days in this place are intense and provocative, there is a need to surrender and embark on the personality of the main characters of the respective works. Little by little, the strong protagonist begins to lose herself, deconstructing herself around one of her characters from her latest book.

black butterflies

The plot tells about the life of a South African woman, with many problems, who in her moments of lucidity is a very famous writer. She has a very difficult relationship with her father (Abraham Jonker, played very well by the late Rutger Hauer), who started raising her after she was hospitalized and her mother died. After being rescued at sea, from the start of the feature film, she begins a relationship with a very famous writer and together they face the political movements of the time, alcohol, sexual desire and the madness that take hold of the main character intensely. .

Dealer – Life at stake

In the plot, we meet Jack Manfred (Clive Owen), a man trying to get a big break at a publishing company with a dream of writing a bestseller. With a lot of time to write but with little money, he even owes the rent to his girlfriend Marion (Gina McKee) who lives with him, one day he receives a call from his father, a rascal who lives in South Africa who got Jack a job as a croupier in a London casino. Jack accepts the position and begins to work there. There he meets the employees, the players and as he likes his new profession, he ends up attracting conflicts in his present, but which can serve as important variables for his next book.

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