After the Fall is a play by the American dramatist Arthur Miller .
36-423: Rebecca Augusta Miller (born September 15, 1962) is an American filmmaker and novelist. She is known for her films Angela (1995), Personal Velocity: Three Portraits (2002), The Ballad of Jack and Rose (2005), The Private Lives of Pippa Lee (2009), and Maggie's Plan (2015), all of which she wrote and directed, as well as her novels The Private Lives of Pippa Lee and Jacob's Folly . Miller received
72-489: A Roundabout Theatre Company production from June 25 (previews) to September 12 that year. Directed by Michael Mayer , the cast starred Peter Krause and Carla Gugino . The play was nominated for the 2005 Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Set Design of a Play (Richard Hoover). After the Fall , one of Miller's more personal plays, is a thinly veiled personal critique centered on Miller's recent divorce from Marilyn Monroe :
108-620: A 15th-century altarpiece. Upon graduation in 1985, Miller went abroad on a fellowship, to Munich, Germany . In 1987, Miller took up residence in New York City, and she showed painting and sculpture at Leo Castelli Gallery , Victoria Munroe Gallery, and in Connecticut . Miller also studied film at The New School . Mentored by professor Arnold S. Eagle , a photographer and cinematographer, Miller began making non-verbal films, which she exhibited along with her artwork. In 1988, Miller
144-402: A guilt-ridden man who has bad luck with women". Frank Rich reviewed a 1984 revival, in which he felt the play "is never as moving or profound as it wants to be. The play remains a collection of sporadically arresting autobiographical fragments—all floating in a glutinous interior monologue that substitutes tortuous rhetoric for psychological or metaphysical insight." In June 1964, Miller sold
180-536: A photographer. Her younger brother, Daniel, was born in 1966. Her father was Jewish , whereas her mother was Protestant . For a time during childhood, Miller practiced Catholicism of her own accord. Her maternal grandparents themselves were Catholic converts to Protestantism. She has said that she stopped thinking of herself as a Christian "somewhere at the end of college". Miller remembered her childhood in Roxbury as being surrounded by artists. Sculptor Alexander Calder
216-512: A retirement community with her 80-year-old husband, the story flows back and forth between the main character Pippa's memories of her freewheeling New York City youth in the 1970s and her present life. Miller directed a star-studded cast which includes Robin Wright , Alan Arkin , Keanu Reeves , Winona Ryder and Julianne Moore . The Private Lives of Pippa Lee premiered at Toronto International Film Festival , and screened at Ryerson University ,
252-455: A short film Florence , starring actress Marcia Gay Harden , about a precociously empathetic woman who acquires the symptoms from others; eventually "catching" a neighbor's amnesia, she forgets her own identity. Florence caught the attention of Ensemble Theatre Cincinnati , and Miller was invited to direct a revival of Arthur Miller's After the Fall . She also directed Nicole Burdette 's play The Bluebird Special Came Through Here. Miller
288-514: Is "ash blonde, very beautiful and very sexy, [and] is an astonishing reminder of the late Marilyn Monroe." A review in Time magazine called the play "endlessly fascinating, emotionally harrowing, and consumingly committed to telling the truth as Miller sees it." It also noted Kazan had charged the play "with theatrical electricity", while calling Robards Jr.'s performance as Quentin " brilliant, grueling". Hobe Morrison of Variety described After
324-700: Is a 10-year-old girl trying to cope with a dysfunctional family and is on a quest to 'purify' herself. Her parents, Mae and Andrew, are former musicians who have resigned themselves to the loss of their dreams. They are now having problems in their relationship. Mae has drastic mood shifts that bring her from manic happiness to utter misery. Andrew tries to hold everyone together, but Mae's vacillations are becoming more than he can manage. Angela tries to cope by inventing an imaginary universe of 'order' for herself and her 6-year-old sister, Ellie. Left to figure out everything for themselves, she grabs at scraps of religion, superstition, and fantasy to try to make some sense out of
360-666: Is a 1995 American drama film directed by Rebecca Miller and starring John Ventimiglia , Anna Thomson , Miranda Stuart Rhyne and Vincent Gallo . The film, Miller's directorial debut , won awards at the Sundance Film Festival , the Brussels International Fantastic Film Festival and the Gotham Awards . It premiered at the 1995 Sundance Film Festival and was given a limited release on January 26, 1996. Angela
396-533: Is a novelist, director, independent filmmaker, and advocate of women in the film industry. She was featured in the 2003 IFC Films documentary In The Company of Women , directed by Lesli Klainberg and Gini Reticker. Miller wrote and directed her first film, Angela , in 1995. It is the story of 10-year-old Angela's attempt to purge her soul of sin in order to cure her mentally ill mother. The film premiered at Philadelphia Festival of World Cinema, and screened at Sundance Film Festival . For Angela , Miller received
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#1732787517129432-705: The Berlin Film Festival , and the Hay Festival . At the Kerry Film Festival in 2009, Miller was honored with the Maureen O'Hara Award, in recognition for her achievements in film. In 2013, Miller published Jacob's Folly – a complex novel about an 18th-century French rake reincarnated as a housefly in modern-day New York with the ability to enter the other characters’ consciousness and influence them. Critic Maureen Corrigan praised
468-901: The High Falls Film Festival , and the film was successfully released through United Artists . The film earned critical praise from The New York Times as "the work of a talented and highly visual writer." For Personal Velocity , Miller received the Sundance Film Festival Grand Jury Prize and the Independent Spirit John Cassavetes Award in 2002, and the National Board of Review of Motion Pictures Special Recognition for Excellence in Filmmaking in 2003. Cinematographer Ellen Kuras received
504-723: The Independent Feature Project 's Open Palm Award , and the Sundance Film Festival Filmmaker Trophy from her peers. The film's cinematographer Ellen Kuras was also honored at Sundance and the Brussels International Festival of Fantasy Film . Miller's collection of prose portraits of women, Personal Velocity , was awarded The Washington Post Best Book of 2001. Personal Velocity was adapted by Miller for her 2002 award-winning feature film by
540-836: The New York Film Festival , Montclair Film Festival , Berlin Film Festival , Dublin International Film Festival , San Francisco International Film Festival , USA Film Festival /Angelika Film Center Dallas, Denver Film Critics Society Women+Film Festival, Miami International Film Festival , and Sundance Film Festival . Sony Pictures Classics distributed Maggie's Plan in theaters. The ensemble cast includes Greta Gerwig , Julianne Moore , Ethan Hawke , Bill Hader and Maya Rudolph . Critic for Vanity Fair , Richard Lawson praised Maggie's Plan as "A smart, goofy delight!" Maggie's Plan
576-543: The Sundance Film Festival Grand Jury Prize for Personal Velocity and the Gotham Independent Film Award for Breakthrough Director for Angela . Miller is the daughter of Arthur Miller , a Pulitzer Prize -winning playwright, and his third wife, Inge Morath , a Magnum photographer. Miller was born in Roxbury, Connecticut , to Arthur Miller , the dramatist, and Austrian-born Inge Morath ,
612-545: The Woodstock Film Festival and IFC Center in New York. For The Ballad of Jack and Rose , Miller received Honorable Mention from MTV 's 2010 The Best Female Directors Who Should Have Won An Oscar. In 2009, Miller released her fourth film, The Private Lives of Pippa Lee , an adaptation of her 2002 novel by the same name. A nuanced exploration of a 50-year-old woman's adjustment reaction to moving into
648-508: The 1964 Tony Award for Best Featured Actress in a Play , and Jason Robards was nominated for the 1964 Tony Award for Best Actor in a Play . In 1984, the play was revived Off-Broadway at Playhouse 91, where it ran from October 4 to December 2 that year. Directed by John Tillinger , the cast starred Frank Langella and Dianne Wiest . In 2004, the play was revived on Broadway at the American Airlines Theatre in
684-715: The Excellence in Cinematography Award at Sundance. Personal Velocity: Three Portraits is part of the permanent collection of the Museum of Modern Art in New York City . In 2003, Miller wrote and illustrated A Woman Who. The book is a collection of images of women, in a variety of scenes, each drawn by Miller with her eyes closed. Miller wrote the screenplay for the 2005 film adaptation of David Auburn 's Pulitzer Prize -winning play Proof . The film
720-402: The Fall as an "almost exactly three hours of guilt confession and self-justification". In summary, he felt Miller's play is "interesting, but exhausting. In short, After the Fall is a play of contrasts and despite its faults, not to be dismissed." Claudia Cassidy was more critical of Miller's play, calling it "a three hour monolog of self-justification, with interruptions and conjurations, by
756-412: The current. Ellie is left standing alone, only to begin rising up from the river in a pose reminiscent of an angel. Stephen Holden of The New York Times wrote Angela is a film that "is at its best when looking at the world through Angela's eyes before she has gone numb. Its early scenes beautifully capture a childhood intuition of a world where bogeymen lurk and angels hover. On a more somber note,
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#1732787517129792-551: The film is an almost clinical study of how children absorb their parents' psychology." Holden praised the "strong, unself-conscious performances" of the lead child actors as well as of the supporting cast. John Anderson of the Los Angeles Times praised the cinematography and said, "What Miller is showing us are the roots of religion in fear and ignorance: Angela, visibly angry at her life and deprived of an enemy, devises ways of fending off Satan." Though he said one of
828-681: The film’s weaknesses is its tendency to be vague, "Miller keeps [the audience] white-knuckled". After the Fall (play) The play premiered on Broadway at the ANTA Washington Square Theatre on January 23, 1964, and closed on May 29, 1965 after 208 performances. Directed by Elia Kazan , who collaborated with Miller on the script, the cast starred Barbara Loden as Maggie and Jason Robards Jr. as Quentin, along with Ralph Meeker as Mickey, Salome Jens as Holga, and an early appearance by Faye Dunaway as Nurse. Barbara Loden, who would become Kazan's wife in 1967, won
864-401: The plot takes place inside the mind of Quentin, a New York City Jewish intellectual who decides to reexamine his life, in order to determine whether or not he should marry his most recent love, Holga. The play has been roundly criticised by some for being too similar to Miller's actual life because Maggie's suicide is similar to the overdose death of Miller's former wife, Monroe. The feelings of
900-519: The protagonist, Quentin, are often believed to be Miller's own reflections about his failed marriage. For example, according to Sarah Bradford, in her biography America's Queen: The Life of Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis , "Jackie, who had admired Arthur Miller enough to seat him at her table at the Malraux dinner, turned on him for his betrayal of Marilyn in his play After the Fall , which opened in New York on January 23, 1964. For [Jackie Kennedy] loyalty
936-432: The same name. She adapted three short stories into a screenplay of three different, although thematically unified short films, which Miller then directed. Each film explores personal transformation in response to life-changing circumstances. Miller credits the poet Honor Moore for help to "bridge the gap between being a writer of scripts and fiction." Personal Velocity: Three Portraits screened at Tribeca Film Festival ,
972-471: The screen rights to the play to Carlo Ponti and Ira Steiner, for an estimated $ 500,000. Paul Newman and Ponti's wife Sophia Loren were in line to portray Quentin and Maggie. Fred Zinnemann was in discussions to direct the film. A television production of the play was shown in December 1974 on NBC. It starred Faye Dunaway , Christopher Plummer , Bibi Andersson , and a young Brooke Shields , and
1008-643: The sick, frenzied demon of allure bent on self-destruction". Earl Wilson , in a column for the San Francisco Examiner , wrote Loden "is so good as Marilyn Monroe in Arthur Miller's After the Fall that she has officially tossed her pajama tops into the ring to be the new American Sex Symbol ... and she deserves it". John Chapman of the New York Daily News called Loden's performance "magnificently played", as well noted she
1044-410: The stories that Angela tells Ellie are mainly meant to scare her into submission. But as time goes on, and her mother succumbs to mental illness , Angela becomes obsessed with the idea that the only way her mother is going to get better is if she and her sister can wash away all of their sins. At the end of the film, Angela takes Ellie to the river to be baptized, but drowns after being washed away with
1080-520: The work, saying, "Miller's writing style is sensuous, and her individual stories expand, opulently, in scope and emotional impact." Miller wrote a screenplay neo- screwball comedy called Maggie's Plan , based upon an original story by Karen Rinaldi. Miller directed the film, shot primarily in Greenwich Village , in 2015. Maggie's Plan premiered at Toronto International Film Festival Special Presentations, and screened internationally, at
1116-530: The world and understand the difference between good and evil . She and Ellie concoct magical rituals and have visions of fallen angels and the Virgin Mary ; reading signs in the way a towel falls off a chair or a tool falls off a truck, they set off to find their way to heaven. They wander through the neighborhood, meet a lot of strange people, and try to find a way to absolve themselves of whatever sins they may have committed, and 'go to heaven'. At first,
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1152-495: Was a neighbor; so were choreographer Martha Clarke and members of the experimental dance troupe Pilobolus . Immersed in drawing, Miller was tutored by another neighbor, sculptor Philip Grausman . Miller attended Choate Rosemary Hall . In 1980, she entered Yale University to study painting and literature. Naomi Wolf , the feminist author, was her roommate. Miller created wooden panel triptychs she described as hybrids of pictographic forms inspired, for example, by Paul Klee and
1188-790: Was cast in the role of Anya in the Peter Brook 's adaptation of Chekhov 's The Cherry Orchard , her first stage role. She originated the part of Lili in The American Plan . Throughout, Miller gravitated toward her role as an independent filmmaker/director. Miller began her acting career with directors Alan Pakula , Paul Mazursky , and Mike Nichols . She played the female lead in NBC 's television movie The Murder of Mary Phagan , and supporting roles in feature films , including Regarding Henry (1991), Consenting Adults (1992), and Wind (1992). In 1991, Miller wrote and directed
1224-527: Was directed by John Madden , and stars Gwyneth Paltrow and Anthony Hopkins . Also in 2005, Miller directed her film, The Ballad of Jack and Rose , which stars Daniel Day-Lewis , Camilla Belle and Catherine Keener . Shot on location in Nova Scotia and on Prince Edward Island , the film is a textured, sorrowful, coming of age story about a 16-year-old named Rose who has grown up in isolation with her father. The Ballad of Jack and Rose screened at
1260-539: Was released in movies theaters in 2016. In 2023, she released She Came to Me . Miller first met her future husband, actor Daniel Day-Lewis , at a screening of the film adaptation of her father's play The Crucible . Miller and Day-Lewis married on November 13, 1996. They have two sons together: Ronan (b. 1998) and Cashel (b. 2002). Miller is stepmother to Day-Lewis's eldest son, Gabriel Kane Day-Lewis (b. 1995) from his previous relationship with Isabelle Adjani . Acting roles Angela (1995 film) Angela
1296-449: Was the ultimate test of character, and in portraying Marilyn as a self-destructive slut whom he had abandoned for her own good, Miller had dismally failed it." Barbara Loden received critical acclaim for her performance as Maggie. Howard Taubman of The New York Times called Loden's performance "stunning"; he further noted she "all but enkindles the stage, in her early scenes as the warm, childlike enchantress and in her later ones as
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