She is fascinating. Totally fascinating. When I was reading from her biography, I couldn't help but have a lump in my throat when the author writes about her death, despite knowing she was far from being an angel - she was literally so free she could sometimes be cruel, especially to her lovers. And yet you can't help but admire her. Total freedom, yet a strong "no nonsense" attitude. The way she doesn't let the interviewer interrupt her is priceless. I can't imagine myself even TRYING to interrupt her.

Natalie Clifford Barney had one long and extraordinary life. She is long overdue for rediscovery.

Nice yet heavily self-censored...there was so much more to her salon than they dared to discuss in the sixties...

i regret so much we have no film, no recording of Renée Vivien who died to earlier to let traces of her in the audiovisual archives.... It's an incredible loss for female writing !

@TheAmazingPommeDePin

2 жыл бұрын

Absolutely! But I'm not sure she would have agreed to do interviews, she was an introvert to the bone.

My mother died in the same year that this interview took place. I'm sure she knew of and admired Natalie Barney. I have so many regrets- not taking more interest in the things my mother tried to share and impart with me. Too late. I'm 84 and ready to listen. Ironic.

@AliEtSaMaman

3 жыл бұрын

Your presence in this comments section is the exact proof it's never too late. You may be 84-years-old but your curiosity is very much there.

What a formidable woman. Even in her 90's she's a commanding presence.

Thank you for posting this. How refreshing to listen to an interview wherein the interviewer actually let's the subject speak without cutting them off.

I would have very much like to have met this woman and her circle of friends throughout her lifetime. What an interesting life she led. You can tell that she comes from money and a literary circle by the way she speaks - the differences from the 2021 vernacular are pretty remarkable.

@killme982

3 жыл бұрын

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Why nobody have not made a film about Nathalie Barney ? ... I can not understand

@2020raindrops

8 жыл бұрын

+Tito Time hAhaha! They surely will make a book of u

@2020raindrops

8 жыл бұрын

+Tito Time Marvellous

@johnclarke5459

8 жыл бұрын

Tout simplement, Ils ont peur de la vérité!

@verdancyhime

7 жыл бұрын

Tito Time because they think people won't watch a movie about lesbians?

@titotime552

7 жыл бұрын

I'm sure it's not that, Because today have been made many successful movies and series of lesbian themes It is probable that Barney's life is very thick To get a quick script So it will take time to do. But I am sure that in the not too distant future, Someone will do a movie about Barney And maybe not a only movie, may that a series of movies, Because Barney's life is full of Interesting stories ... just read her biography. I'm surprised it's not more famous.

This film was first shown on 25th May 1966. We have the transmission date on the can of film itself.

Thank you so much for uploading!!!

Amazing! Thanks for uploading.

Thank you for posting this. Extraordinary woman.

Wonderful! Thank you.

What a treat! Thank you so much for posting this.

Thank you Pheidias. FYI this recording is misdated. I have done research with primary witnesses and cross-checking, and I can say with certainty that it was made during the summer of 1967.

@tristrampowell7473

3 жыл бұрын

the film was first shown on BBC2 on 25th May 1966. I have a number of regrets. It should have been a longer interview conducted by me. I was very in experienced at the time. I kept in touch with Natalie by letter.

Marvellous! Thank you

THANK YOU! I was wanting someone who had this to post it for so long. This woman is my biggest heroine.

She knew amazing women writers and artists, yet the interviewer only asks her about her male friends...

@nigelsouthworth5577

Жыл бұрын

She talks about Gertrude Stein if you care to listen

Es una mujer admirable, agradezco subieran este vídeo, es una joya.

I read her biography years ago. Loved this video. thanks for it

I'm glad to have been born the same day as her. Otherwise, I would have never heard of her. I'm sure I'm not the only one who felt chills when she spoke directly to the camera about "Idleness" & "Friendship"...

Natalie Barney didn't live in the Latin Quarter. She lived at 20 rue Jacob (where this was filmed) in St Germain des President, just off rue Bonaparte.

Vraiment super ce reportage !!!!

I love this. So Barney

Incroyable, quelle émotion.

Incredible!

OMG Alice B Toklas made a real cutting remark about Ms. Barney. When someone said how does Natalie get these young girls and love affairs at her age. Even at 60 she was going strong sexually. Anyway Alice B. Toklas said she picks them up in their Metro bathrooms. Very very cutting at that time. There is a great old vieo called Paris was a Woman. They are all there. Djuna Barnes, Dolly Wilde and Natalie's long time companion Berthe.

even as an old lady, she was one boss ass bitch! she was awesome.

i just regret we have nothing about Renée Vivien.

@violetbrown2372

4 жыл бұрын

even though Romaine Brooks gets the most press, as the love of Natalie's, life, I say it was the beyond tragic Renee' Vivied

@Manon-l6d

3 ай бұрын

Renée Vivien died in 1909 at the age of 32 and was introvert...

a perfect film bio subject

Me too .it would be fascinating

"friendship" lol

Fantastique Nathalie..! Ton mystère résonne au temple de l amitié toile inquiétante où tu pretendais aimer !...

@Manon-l6d

3 ай бұрын

Son prénom ne s'écrit pas avec un H, 😅

Fascinating - a window into an incredibly creative bygone era. It seems she was evicted from the house by a buyer who wanted to rip up and modernise everything. (Ironic after NB had been one of the great modernisers of the early 20th C. She died in a hotel 6 years after this video.

Ну что, русские тут ?

Is this clip in the public domain?

Привет из прошлого, ахаха)))

Pourquoi on demande toujours aux femmes de parler des "grands hommes qu'elles ont connu" ? On dirait l'article de Breton sur Frida Kahlo... Quelle honte. Natalie Barney a une oeuvre ! Elle a écrit des aphorismes et on le nie complètement ! Elle mérite de figurer auprès des meilleur.es autorices d'aphorismes, comme Joubert, Juvénal, etc. !

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Read her biography wild heart .she was as jealous as can be when she wasn't dictating .ironic since she claimed the great Sappho lived with many women in harmony.

Big lesbien

@Someone-wall

2 жыл бұрын

Rad

What a sad way to live your life, revolve it entirely around your sexuality. A lot of self-indulgent individuals people attention of each other, what a "great" mix. They never sorted their problems out. Or in other words, they unnecessarily brought a lot of this shit upon themselves. You have to wonder why she had so many sexual relationships with other women and be so prolific about it... A lot of this behaviour has to do with the circumstances of one's childhood.

@elisanemello9013

3 жыл бұрын

You OF COURSE know what kind of BS you are talking about

@the19thcentury81

3 жыл бұрын

@@elisanemello9013 I'm a male and I've never spent my life solely focusing on sexuality. What I said about her can also be said about heterosexual men of her time like Ernest Hemingway and Ezra Pound who spent a great deal of their time wooing sycophantic women who they knew would never challenge them.

@the19thcentury81

3 жыл бұрын

@@elisanemello9013 I've always been curious to why these individuals behaved the ways that they did.

@majidehqazizadeh1723

2 жыл бұрын

@@the19thcentury81 I'm a lesbian and I agree with you. I wish we lived in a world were true and profound love was admired instead of shallow sexual adventures. We have examples of beautiful long-term monogamous lesbian relationships from history (like Ladies of Llangollen, Edith Somerville & Violet Martin, and Michael Field), but they never get enough attention as people prefer cases like bisexual poly-amorous Vita Sackville-West.

@badgerarmy966

2 жыл бұрын

imagine being this tragic lol.