Quote:
"At the heart of [Marquise] Lepage's documentary is a television interview that [Alice] Guy-Blaché gave in the 1960s, a few years before she died. Well into her eighties, the white-haired elfin woman comes across as quick-minded and clear-eyed about her career, a practical pioneer with a sense of the important part she played in early filmmaking. For her interview, and the segments of Guy-Blaché's films that are interposed throughout the documentary, The Lost Garden is valuable and illuminating. Unfortunately, the subject of the film is far more fascinating than its frame. Director [Marquise] Lepage's film is an exercise in historical retrieval that threatens to bury its subject in coyness."
-- Liam Lacey

Source:
Lacey, Liam. "A subject who's more fascinating than the frame." Review of Le jardin oublié : la vie et l'oeuvre d'Alice Guy-Blaché. Globe and Mail, November 10, 1995.