Charleen

Charleen is a 1977 observational documentary film directed and shot by Ross McElwee, about his friend and former poetry teacher, Charleen Swansea. McElwee follows Charleen over a month in her life in North Carolina, where she still teaches poetry, engages in interracial flirtation (to the titillation of her students),[3] and her friendship with American poet Ezra Pound.[4]

Charleen may also refer to Charleen, a song by Terminaator.
Charleen
Directed byRoss McElwee
Written byRoss McElwee
Release date
  • 1977 (1977)
[1]
Running time
54 min.[2]
LanguageEnglish

McElwee shot the film as part of his graduate thesis at MIT.[5]

References
  1. MUBI
  2. Letterboxd
  4. THE MEANING OF LIFE-FRONTLINE-PBS
  5. Lost Illusions: American Cinema in the Shadow of Watergate and Vietnam, 1970-1979 by David O. Cook-Google Books

References
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