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Puzzle of a Downfall Child is a 1970 American drama film directed by Jerry Schatzberg and starring Faye Dunaway, Barry Morse, Viveca Lindfors, Roy Scheider, and Barry Primus.
Lou Andreas Sand, a once famous model, recalls her past as she tries to make success in the modeling world of New York, her stressful workdays, her affair with Mark, an advertising executive, her friendship with photographer Aaron, and her downward spiral into ruin.
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Puzzle of a Downfall Child. A distraught fashion model (Faye Dunaway), once the best, recalls her empty life of alcohol, drugs and sex.
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Flashback several years to the arrival of prim, high strung Lou (nee Emily Mercine) in Manhattan. After bowling over agent Peggy McCavage (Shirley Rich), the gorgeous, feline-looking Lou is an immediate success in the fashion industry.
PUZZLE OF A DOWNFALL CHILD is about a famous fashion model who's burnt out on the business and moved to a cottage by the sea to reflect on her splintered life. Years of being treated as an object by photographers, stylists, agents, etc., has left her with a serious identity complex and an addiction to pills...although flashbacks show that she ...
Dec 3, 2010 · In his first feature, Puzzle of a Downfall Child, which screens for one night only at Film Forum on December 6th, the model Lou Andreas Sand (Faye Dunaway) suffers a breakdown and retreats to an isolated beach house. Aaron, a photographer and former lover (Barry Primus), visits Lou and tape-records their conversation.