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VHS : Jupiter's WifeIn association with Amazon.com Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
Binding: VHS Tape EAN: 9786304216255 Format: Color, NTSC ISBN: 1565017781 Label: New Video Group Manufacturer: New Video Group Number Of Items: 1 Publisher: New Video Group Release Date: December 23, 1996 Running Time: 87 minutes Studio: New Video Group Theatrical Release Date: September 08, 1995 Sales Rank: 4801 Related Items:
Editorial Review: Description: The true story of Maggie, a beguiling homeless woman in her forties living in New York’s Central Park. Claiming to be the daughter of actor Robert Ryan and married to the Roman god Jupiter, her story is both a complex enigma and a riveting tale. Amazon.com: This quietly poignant 1994 documentary chronicles the life of Maggie, an intelligent and enigmatic homeless woman on the streets of New York City, and the relationship she develops with the filmmaker, who attempts to piece together the threads of her life story. The director narrates his search for answers to Maggie's past, using interviews with friends and acquaintances as well as archival footage, from a newsreel of his subject in the 1960s driving a horse-drawn carriage in Central Park to her appearance on a popular game show, all in an effort to understand how this woman ended up homeless. More importantly, director Michel Negroponte takes his cues in unraveling the mystery from Maggie herself, documenting her beliefs that she is the daughter of 1940s matinee idol Robert Ryan and the wife of the ancient Roman god Jupiter. In stark vérité style, the film follows Maggie's search for stability and peace, taking care of stray dogs and finding a place she can call home. Sometimes sad, sometimes hopeful, and startlingly original, Jupiter's Wife is a compassionate real-life portrayal of survival in the modern age. --Robert Lane Average Rating:
 Rating:  - Respectful Portrait Of Mentally Different Homeless WomanThis documentary introduces us to Maggie a lady of middle years living in Manhattan's Central Park with a pack of stray dogs she has made in to a family of sorts. The filmmaker, Michel Negroponte, met Maggie by chance in the park and was entranced by her beguiling personality and cryptic statements that seem to show both madness and wisdom. Maggie is a mysterious character and Negroponte is able to solve some of the mystery of her earlier life through a bit of research that surprisingly uncovers ... Read More Rating: - the real face of "family values".....C. G. Jung once had a patient who believed she lived on the moon. So Jung met her there. As she realized he took her experiences as valid, she told a sad tale of vampires and isolation. Eventually, this woman who'd been abused as a girl made her way back to earth. Patients like her had taught Jung that the fact of a person's madness did not in any way invalidate the richness and authenticity of their personal mythology. It would be easy to dismiss--to "shrink"--Maggie Cogan's inner world. ... Read More Rating: - A Romantic ConversationIs it schizophrenia, or just a well-developed personal mythology? Or perhaps even a fate predestined in ancient times, the "romantic conversation" of a woman who has determined to devote her time and energy to maintaining the strength of her million-year-long marriage to the god Jupiter. In "Jupiter's Wife," Michel Negroponte introduces us to Maggie, a homeless woman who spends her days wandering through Central Park, surrounded by her dogs, amused by her radio and drawing comfort from her ... Read More Rating:  - Picturesque idyll about tragic circumstancesMichel Negroponte, the director of this documentary, wanders into Central Park and encounters Maggie, a whimsical magical creature, who may be in contact with a real alternate universe made up of Roman and other mythological creatures and stories. Kind of like the reality Mr. Negroponte initially projects onto the park: idylllic, beautiful, mythological. Throughout the film we get to know Maggie, as the director inserts himself into her life and tries to "help" her: because Maggie is a charming, intelligent, ... Read More Rating: - The perfect picture of the beauty of the human psycheThis movie demonstrates the beauty of the human mind, and the fact that my (and your)reality isn't always right. Maggie, though she could probably be labeled as schizophrenic, is probably happier than the majority of individuals that are "healthy". This movie demonstrates what the mind needs to be happy. ? This movie may or may not change your life. If it does, you will forever see the world differently, and every individual as filled with the possibility of being whole. Browse for similar items by category:
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