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This made for TV documentary gives a very perceptive and understanding picture of Dietrich in her final years. There are many sensitive interviews with friends - neighbours/servants/assistants who knew her well (or as well as she ever allowed herself to be known) which give a sweetly touching insight into her life. we see some of the plethora of notes she wrote to these people and fascinating excerpts from phone calls she made to them - usually to ask why she had not heard from them.
While her life at the end may have seemed, and in many respects was, sad, it was, until the very end, a life that she had chosen. And she was remarkably in touch with everyone through her phone, at all hours. As her daughter Maria Riva said at the end, she missed the calls but not the time they took. Her self-control of her life and her cultivation of the Dietrich ‘image’ (the reason for for her self-imposed isolation were remarkable and came from a very Prussian/Germanic sense of duty and what was ‘the right thing to do’.
A marvellous and moving picture - the title of which sounds much better in French than English.