A California native, Sandra happily calls Manhattan (her city of choice for the last several decades) home. Enjoying an enduring passion for the theatre, her plays have been produced in several off-off Broadway venues, and an original drama for television was produced by the Eugene O’Neill National Playwrights Conference. Her journalism credits include among others, reviews and profiles for Our Town, A Manhattan Weekly, The New Orleans Review, and Show Business Weekly. She is currently at work on a novel about cinematic illusions and a collection of stories about women in unfamiliar landscapes. Her paintings were featured in the opening exhibition this year at the Seti Gallery in Kent, CT. She believes every subject finds its medium—film, fiction, theatre, fine art—and she loves the journey. An inveterate traveler, she still finds stimulation and surprise in New York, and her cat Pazza, her greatest inspiration.
Sandra Bertrand — Author
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Tribeca Reviews: ‘Bright Days Ahead’ — or Behind?
Consider the ingredients: smoking, walks in the rain or along the beach (whichever is handy), much drinking and discussion of wine, and a sudden flirtation between an older woman and a younger man. The result: another... -
Lars von Trier’s ‘Nymphomaniac Volume II’ — A Search to Nowhere
If you’re reading the second part of this review, then you’ve probably decided to return to Lars von Trier’s circus of cinematic abuse. I’ll leave it to the individual reader to determine whether this latest... -
Lars von Trier’s ‘Nymphomaniac: Volume I’ — Art or Abuse?
Sometimes you have to give credit where credit is due — if you’re the type of moviegoer whose eyes light up at peepshows advertising the two-headed woman, then the trumped-up title of Lars von Trier’s latest... -
A Mother and Son – Love Gone Wrong
In Child’s Pose, director Călin Peter Netzer’s latest film, both the 2013 winner of the Golden Bear prize at the Berlin Film Festival and the official Romanian entry for Best Foreign Language Film for this...
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Capa in Color: In Love and War
Robert Capa just might be the greatest war photographer that ever lived. He covered five wars — the Spanish Civil War, the Second Sino-Japanese War, World War II across Europe, the 1948 Arab-Israeli War and the...
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Mercedes Sosa – Singer or Saint of the People?
Who is Mercedes Sosa? For starters, she is the subject of Rodrigo H. Vila’s biographical documentary, Mercedes Sosa: The Voice of Latin America. Her remarkable voice gave rise to the Nueva Canción (New Song)...
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Anders Petersen – The Passionate Photographer
Passion can have some strange beginnings. For Swedish photographer Anders Petersen, his relentless passion to capture life with a camera began in a strange way indeed. In Anders Petersen, recently published by Max...
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‘Le Jazz Hot, How the French Saved Jazz’ Is a Passionate Musical Affair
When we think of France, love and wine come to mind, but jazz? To paraphrase an old American standard, “You can’t take that away from the good ol’ U.S.A.!” Well, think again. In Le Jazz Hot, How the French...
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Beckett’s ‘All That Fall’ Rises Again
What first greets the eye in Samuel Beckett’s radio play, All That Fall, currently playing at 59E59 Theatre, is the sparseness of the whole enterprise. Seven mics are suspended from the rafters, and an unsightly...
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Lewis Hine: Photographer As the People’s Prophet
Prophets come in many forms — the name itself conjures up the likes of the Biblical Moses, a fiery-tongued messenger for the Almighty, or as Shakespeare’s Macbeth put it so aptly, “a poor player…full of sound...