An elderly lady enters a cinema in New York, the session has already started, there are a few people in the room. It is one of his last films which is projected, The picture of Dorian Gray. A spectator believes the rec…
An elderly lady enters a cinema in New York, the session has already started, there are a few people in the room. It is one of his last films which is projected, The picture of Dorian Gray. A spectator thinks she recognizes her: it is Greta Garbo. The Portrait of Greta G. is not a biography, or so fantasized by its author Catherine Locandro, who puts The portrait of Dorian Gray (in which she makes him play Dorian Gray) in abyss to tell the life of the star, mixing biographical elements and others totally imaginary. This brings out the formidable portrait of an actress who turned her back on her job in full glory, but also of the woman surrounded by a mystery that still shrouds her today. The author attempts to unlock the secret of Greta, an ambiguous, solitary, free character who appealed to both men and women and reigned over the film industry for 15 years. His heroine also allows him to address the status of homosexuals in the Mecca of American cinema.
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