struggling playwright
8 movies and shows
The Forty-Year-Old Version
Fri, 02 Oct 2020
Desperate for a breakthrough as she nears the big 4-0, struggling New York City playwright Radha finds inspiration by reinventing herself as a rapper.
La Vie de Bohème
Thu, 27 Feb 1992
Three penniless artists become friends in modern-day Paris: Rodolfo, an Albanian painter with no visa, Marcel, a playwright and magazine editor with no publisher, and Schaunard, a post-modernist composer of execrable noise.
Cyrano, My Love
Sat, 10 Nov 2018
Paris, France, December 1897. The young playwright Edmond Rostand feels like a failure. Inspiration has abandoned him. Married and father of two children, desperate and penniless, he persuades the great actor Constant Coquelin to perform the main role in his new play. But there is a problem: Coquelin wants to premiere it at Christmas and Edmond has not written a single word.
Fear, Anxiety and Depression
Fri, 08 Dec 1989
An unsuccessful playwright faces trials and tribulations as he seeks to find himself in New York City.
Bumping Into Broadway
Sun, 02 Nov 1919
A young playwright spends his last cent to pay the past-due rent for the pretty dancer who's his boarding house next-door neighbor. Soon after, he winds up at a gambling club, where he wins big - just before a police raid.
Monstrous Beauty
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Barbara Field, born into poverty with a rare condition that means she is entirely covered in hair. Given the precious gift of an education, she is offered the opportunity of a place in the luxurious and decadent court of King Charles II, as a “Natural Wonder” where people with extraordinary appearances mix with the aristocracy.
Thin Skin
Thu, 03 Apr 2025
While writing an adaptation of the play "4.48 Psychosis", by English playwright Sarah Kane. Luisa (Ingrid Trigueiro) travels to a desert beach with her family. Immersed in the text, Luisa finds the work's impulses increasingly immersed into her own reality, driving her to the threshold of adaptation and delirium. Between theater, sketch, archival images, and complex memories and family relationships, Arthur Lins uses different staging references to compose a small tropical tale about complex creation process.