Mieko Ouchi

"The Blue Light." "Leni Riefenstahl, 100 years old, is in the office of a young female Hollywood studio executive. Leni's reason to be there is clear, to make one last desperate pitch to direct her first feature film in fifty years. The young woman willing to meet her? Much harder to say ... A thought provoking contemplation on art, politics and the seduction of fascism, and a theatrical examination of a woman who danced one perfect dance with the devil and changed the way films are made forever." "Leni Riefenstahl was one of the most remarkable and controversial women of the 20th century. Dancer, actor, photographer and filmmaker, Riefenstahl caught the eye of Adolf Hitler with her prodigious first film: "The Blue Light." A cinematic innovator, her decision to direct "Triumph of the Will," got her blacklisted as a filmmaker until her death in 2003 at 101, unrepentant and mostly forgotten." "The Red Priest (Eight Ways To Say Goodbye)." "Trapped in a loveless and abusive marriage, a young un-named woman is forced by her husband, a rich courtier of Louis XV, to take violin lessons from the aging and desperate Italian composer Antonio Vivaldi, and within six weeks play a concerto for the court in Paris in 1741. All for a bet. The delicate, complex and combative journey they embark on will not only decide their futures, but also change them both in ways they never imagined. A story about the healing power of music and the journey to become an artist."--BOOK JACKET.Ouchi, Mieko is the author of 'Mieko Ouchi', published 2007 under ISBN 9780887545207 and ISBN 0887545203.