weary sigh

yet another book has been published making heavy weather of leni riefenstahl. are communists like sergei eisenstein or pasolini similarly reviled? no. why? what's the difference?

riefenstahl was a careerist, not a nazi. she was only interested in her own professional advancement. just like françois mitterand. when the war began and the germans were ascendant mitterand was a fascist. at the war's close when the germans were losing mitterand had changed sides. i guess riefesntahl never had the tact to change sides soon enough.

riefenstahl is over-rated as a film-maker. as propaganda "triumph of the will" is a failure. it is boring and strangely static. i doubt anyone was converted to nazism by sitting through its grandiose longueurs.

find another subject.