Puzzle of a Downfall Child

Overview:

Lou Andreas Sand, a once famous model, recalls her past as she tries to make success in the modeling world of New York, her stressful workdays, her affair with Mark, an advertising executive, her friendship with photographer Aaron, and her downward spiral into ruin.

Released: 1970-12-16

Duration: 01:45:00

Genre: Drama

Director: Jerry Schatzberg, Nancy Hopton

Writer: Carole Eastman, Jerry Schatzberg

Cast: Viveca Lindfors, Barry Primus, Faye Dunaway, ...

Director: Jerry Schatzberg Nancy Hopton

Writer: Carole Eastman Jerry Schatzberg

Cast: Viveca Lindfors Barry Primus Faye Dunaway Roy Scheider Barbara Carrera Barry Morse Ruth Jackson John Heffernan Sydney Walker Clark Burckhalter Shirley Rich Emerick Bronson Jane Hallaren Susan Willis

Genre: Drama

Description

A beautiful but disturbed young woman lives alone at a beach cottage, reliving her past, a life of delusions and lies. Lou Andreas Sand is a former fashion model whose life has gone into a downward spiral, including drug use and a nervous breakdown. She tells an acquaintance, Aaron Reinhardt, her story for a film he is planning on her, but the details do not ring true. Lou evidently had a lover who abused her, and a penchant for sex with strange men. Along the way, she became engaged to marry Mark, an ad executive, but apparently jilted him on the day of their wedding, leading to her descent into drugs and an attempted suicide.