Reissued Book: Ed van der Elsken's Love on the Left Bank at Focus ...

It is a classic of its kind â€" grainy, monochrome cinéma vérité â€" and one of the first photobooks to record the nascent flowering of rebellious youth culture in Europe. Set in and around the hinterland between Odéon and St Germain-des-Prés, ... She is the subject of four films, one, Death in the Port Jackson Hotel, made in 1971 by van der Elsken. She died of cancer, aged 72, in 2003 in her native Melbourne. In a newspaper interview, given from her hospital bed, she said, ...