Product Details

• Actors: Paul Bowles, Gary Conklin
• Directors: Gary Conklin
• Producers: Gary Conklin
• Format: Color, NTSC
• Rated: NR (Not Rated)
• Number of tapes: 1
• Studio: Mystic Fire Video
• VHS Release Date: September 1, 1998
• Run Time: 57 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• ASIN: 6303503527
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #349,351 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)

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5.0 out of 5 stars The mystery man seen in his natural element., September 8, 2000

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John McCormack (Mahopac, NY United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Paul Bowles in Morocco [VHS] (VHS Tape)

Paul bowles, like many of his characters, seems an incomplete person, almost empty and completely defined by circumstance and enviroment. Realy, Bowles is the ultimate outsider, alien whereever he goes. When Gertrude Stein suggested he vist morocco, he quickly packed his bags and left N.Y. traveling with notable composser Aron Copland. Immediatley he fell in love with the native folk music (which he and Brian Gysin recorded hundeds of hours on portable tape recorders) and the natives completely different way of thinking and experienceing the world, a place where 'reality' and 'fantacy' had no distictions. He found himself in a magical realm of spells, exotic landscapes, bizarre trance rituals, hypnotic music, crazy kif-inspired folk tales. An isolated, wide open place where time could dissapear, and logic was rendered meaningless. Morroco's also known for it's violence and the erratic unpredictibility of its inhabitents. A strange place where east meets west and the tension created could errupt into chaos at any time. It all goes into his fiction and this movie makes it easy to see why Bowles is the way he is, how the enviroment impacts his writeing, and gives insighteful glimpses of his life and why the Beats so admired him. Particularly his good friends William Burroughs, Allen Ginsburg, Gregary Corso, Tennesse Williums, Truman Copote, and Dozens more. Although it only briefly touches upon his wife - Jane Bowles, a brilliant writer by herself, it nevertheless provides an overall interesting introduction to his career from composser, poet, novelist, traveller and ex-patriote icon. His uniqueness quietly shines forth ; for any fan of Bowles or Morroco, this is a fasinating look into one of the most enigmatic talents and legendary places of the last centery.