spoke with Elina Löwensohn and Galaxy Craze, who, respectively, played the roles of Nadja and Lucy in the 1994 film, Nadja
. Elina shared the upsetting true story behind her dislike of butter, a detail that was carried over into the film; Galaxy expressed uncertainty over her own name. The author reveals that his love of the film is inextricably linked to his own severe feelings of inadequacy as an artist.
“You’ll have to tell me, what year was it shot?” Martin Donovan asks me.
In
. If there were three “big names” in
Nadja at the time of its release, it would have been Suzy Amis (now Suzy Amis Cameron, whom I could not reach for this essay), Peter Fonda (who died in 2019), and Martin Donovan, who had become very recognizable thanks to his roles in multiple Hal Hartley films.