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Netflix documentary on Joan Didion aims to translate her integrity in prose to video

The unspoken goal of director Griffin Dunne's documentary on Joan Didion The Centre Will Not Hold is to translate the integrity that resonates in her literary works to video.

"I have always found that if I examine something, it's less scary," author Joan Didion says one hour into The Centre Will Not Hold, a new 90 minute Netflix documentary on her fascinating life. Didion has denied numerous requests from other

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