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Review

From the director of Before Stonewall comes this alternately interesting and scholarly documentary centering on the lives of several expatriates who lived and worked in Paris between the wars. Paris, specifically the area known as the Left Bank, became an intellectual, religious, racial, sexual and political haven for so many artists, including Hemingway, Joyce and Picasso. But this well-researched docu probes past the era's "stars" and focuses on the many women and lesbians who also thrived, those being Gertrude Stein and Alice Toklas, publishers Sylvia Beach and Adrienne Monnier, New Yorker columnist Janet Flanner, heiress Natalie Barney, painter Romaine Brooks, and Djuna Barnes and her lover Thelma Woods. Narrated by Juliet Stevenson, and written by Andrea Weiss.