With the documentary Hearts of Darkness, the artist and filmmaker, who died on Friday, helped burnish her husband’s legacy—while demonstrating the emotional labor that wives often undertake for their acclaimed spouses.
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When it comes to "Making of" documentaries, I put one above all others. It is "Hearts of Darkness: A Filmmaker's Apocalypse" (1991), a full-length feature about the filming of Francis Coppola's "Apocalypse Now". Nothing quite illustrates its impact like Francois Truffaut's statement: "I demand that a film express either the joy of making cinema or the agony of making cinema. I am not interested in anything in between." That the pain it captures eventually translated into cinematic greatness only serves to make it more compelling.
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