Talking Like Her(2020)

Her songs were personal. So was the rejection. Now her music is everywhere but she is nowhere to be found.

Talking Like Her is a documentary about Connie Converse, a pioneering singer-songwriter whose introspective, unflinching music found no audience in 1950s America. Ahead of her time and underappreciated during her lifetime, Converse recorded deeply personal songs that challenged the era's expectations of women artists. Discouraged by indifference, she eventually abandoned her music career, packed her Volkswagen, and vanished without a trace, leaving behind meticulously organized recordings and compositions that would remain largely forgotten for decades. The film traces her remarkable life and legacy, exploring how a talented artist's voice was silenced by circumstance and cultural prejudice, and how her work has finally found recognition in the modern era.