1984 · drama · historical · autobiographical
Diary for My Children
Directed by Márta Mészáros1h 46m1984
After having lost her parents, young Juli returns from the Soviet Union to her native Budapest. Scarred by the wounds of the past, the ghost of Stalin’s oppression haunts her as she reunites with her aunt and adoptive mother Magda.
Our read: Diary for My Children (1984) reads as a sombre, measured, grounded drama · historical · autobiographical entry — measured in intensity, mid-stakes in scope, measured in temperature, ambivalent in outlook.
Sombre, measured, measured drama / historical, grounded in texture. Ambivalent, mid-stakes, measured.
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- measured
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