This month the momentous novel âThe Great Gatsbyâ went into public domain, so there is no better time to bring up a film that sheds new light on this old classic.
Directed by Robert Steven Williams in his first full-length documentary, âGatsby in Connecticut: The Untold Story,â presented by Vision Films and Against the Grain Productions in 2020, began as a 2013 project to document the Fitzgeraldsâ time in Westport, Connecticut. He worked with the brilliant author Richard Webb Jr., whose companion book to the film, âBoats Against the Current,â stipulates the extensive study done on this eminent subject. Their subsequent research and creative output was inspired by an article published in The New Yorker by âThe woman who really started us on this journey,â the late Barbara Probst Solomon. Her work was left mostly dormant for years.