![]() Sophie may be a master storyteller when it comes to her films, but that of her own life is told by six people close to her – a lover, her husband, her brother, a critic who follows her career, a producer she screws over, and the subject of her first work. ![]() This plot line may be somewhat familiar, but just like Sophie herself, there's nothing ordinary about the way North recounts her titular protagonist's life. It's a story that examines the notion of artistic legacy and meditates on the ethics involved in film-making and storytelling, as we follow Sophie Stark from her beginnings as a fledgling documentary maker to iconoclastic director. ![]() Anna North's The Life and Death of Sophie Stark is a captivating portrait of the artist as a young woman. ![]()
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