A tender archival portrait of the composer Ned Rorem in his gorgeous 20's as he ate up Paris, and Paris consumed him.

“When Ned Rorem’s ‘Paris Diary’ exploded on the scene in 1966 there had never been a book in English quite like it: Its intimate combination of personal, literary, and social insights was unprecedented… Ned's diaries marked the beginnings of Gay Liberation, not because Rorem made a special issue of his sexuality, but because he did not; rather, he wrote of his affairs frankly and unashamedly. A casualness informs each sensual entry, and the overall tone is at once bratty and brilliant, insecure and vain, loving and cultured, but, above all, honest and entertaining.” ~ from the introduction by Richard Howard

Dir. Susan Sandler

Credit: Editor, Assistant Editor, Sound Design