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Perhaps surprisingly, Joan Didion: The Center Will Not Hold, which is available on Netflix from 27 October, is the first documentary about a writer whose body of work helped define and record American life, particularly during the restive 60s and 70s. From the Manson murders and the Iran-Contra affair to the Salvadoran civil war and her own bereavement, Didion tackled them all with her signature lyricism and savvy. And for the actor Griffin Dunne, Didion’s nephew, finding a way to render that legacy in film was his tallest task.

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