Short film
Radical Love
2021 · 23 min
An intimate, reflective portrait that pairs political history with a love story, demanding attention through its quiet emotional and intellectual weight.
- Directed by
- William A. Kirkley
- Genres
- Documentary
- Overview
- Radical Love explores the subversive political activism and fierce love connection of Michael and Eleanora Kennedy, a husband-wife legal team who represented a who’s who of the politically subversive class in the 1960s and 70s. At the center of the story is their most notorious clients and closest friends, founding members of The Weather Underground Bernardine Dohrn and Bill Ayers. Now as a widow, Eleanora reflects on a marriage and life in the crosshairs of politic activism, government surveillance, and deep passion.
- How it feels
- Melancholic, earnest and tense. Measured and needs your attention.
- About
- Love, politics, rebellion, survival
- Content
- Mild violence, sexual content and language. No gore.
- Note
- Written by AI, so it can be wrong. Full breakdown
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- Directed by
- William A. Kirkley
- Genres
- Documentary