Diane

Name: Diane
Director: Kent Jones
Released: 2019

Kent Jones

2019

Synopsis

Diane is a devoted friend and caretaker, particularly to her drug-addicted son. But as those around her begin to drift away in the last quarter of her life, she is left to reckon with past choices and long-dormant memories.

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100
Variety
It’s a tender, wrenching, and beautifully made movie, and part of what’s revelatory about it is that it’s a story of boomers who are confronting the ravages of old age (disease and death, the waning of dreams), yet they’re doing it with a stubborn echo of the hopes and desires they had when they were younger.
91
The Playlist
Jones makes both narrative and formalistic leaps, which won’t be spoiled here, that initially are jarring in comparison to the lo-fi aesthetic that precedes it, but truly open the film up to broader implications about how we hold onto the past events and how they constantly resurface.
90
The Hollywood Reporter
The resulting film feels highly personal, tender yet unsentimental.
90
TheWrap
This is a movie that notices things and people that we are trained to ignore, and you are not likely to forget it.
88
Slant Magazine
Every moment in Jones’s film is so precisely textured that it becomes fantastical.
83
IndieWire
It’s a pinhole portrait of life on Earth; a non-judgmental story about trying to reconcile meaning with meaningless before the well runs dry and it rains again.
83
The Film Stage
While not breaking new narrative ground, it’s a confidently-directed picture, even surprisingly ambitious in later passages. It’s all carried by a stunning performance by Mary Kay Place, whose emotional journey is as profound as it is ambiguous as she remains steadfast in her ways despite coming full circle.
80
Screen Daily
If the intimacy of small town existence is cherished here, there’s also an ominous sense of that same life being eroded and undermined.