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Let It Come Down: The Life Of Paul Bowles

1998, Movie, NR, 73 mins

Let It Come Down: The Life Of Paul Bowles: Review

"You don't make anything much out of that which is false," observes expatriate writer Paul Bowles with a dry flick of his faintly reptilian tongue, then proceeds to evade, obfuscate and deflect every question put to him. Not for nothing does old acquaintance William S. Burroughs snipe that Bowles' biography Without Stopping should have been called Without Telling: The vogue for self-revelation passed Bowles by without so much as ruffling the hairs on the back of his neck. Bo... read more leave a comment