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Portrait of Pauline Kael Opens Berkshire Film Festival

Wed, 05/22/2019 - 10:03am
By
Alexander Wilburn
Pauline Kael is the subject of a new documentary opening at The Berkshire International Film Festival on May 30. Photo submitted

When it comes to a trailblazing voice in film like that of New Yorker critic Pauline Kael, the question is: what can you say about her that she couldn’t say herself? That is what director Rob Garver set out to do in his debut documentary, “What She Said: The Art of Pauline Kael.” It’s an immediately gripping, energized salute to a woman who paved the way for American film criticism as an art form. As Vanity Fair writer Lili Anolik says in the film, “She turned the movie review into something as expressive as a short story or a sonnet.”

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