Losing Ground (1982) on Netflix
Sara Rogers teaches logic and philosophy. Her husband, the painter Victor, rents a house for the summer to focus on his art. Sara had wanted to research a paper in the city.
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Plot summary
Victor, a painter, sells a painting to a museum, and to celebrate he rents a house for the summer in a small town where he can focus on his art. His wife, Sara, teaches logic and philosophy, and she had counted on staying in the city to research a paper on ecstatic experiences. She knows books and resources will be scarce in a small town, and she feels Victor values his painting above her academic work. When the two find a house they both like, she agrees to go with him. In the country, Victor begins painting local women and befriends one of them, Celia, who is Puerto Rican. Sara, jealous, returns to the city briefly to appear in a student film at a student's request, and there she meets Duke, the filmmaker's uncle.
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Did you know?!Facts and trivia about Losing Ground (1982)
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- Kathleen Collins's Losing Ground was the first feature-length drama directed by an African-American woman since the 1920s, and it won First Prize at the Figueira da Foz International Film Festival in Portugal.
- In 2015, Losing Ground was restored by the filmmaker's daughter, Nina Collins, and reissued; a screening that same year at the Film Society of Lincoln Center spurred critical and popular interest in the film.
- Losing Ground never had a theatrical release and never played outside the festival circuit during Kathleen Collins's lifetime; the director died in 1988 at the age of 46, and the film was largely overlooked.
