1987 · hungarian · autobiographical · political
Diary for My Loves
Directed by Márta Mészáros2h 15m1987
A continuation of "Diary for My Children," the film picks up in 1950, when Juli, the diarist, is 18 and determined to become a movie director.
Our read: Diary for My Loves (1987) reads as a sombre, measured, grounded hungarian · autobiographical · political entry — measured in intensity, mid-stakes in scope, measured in temperature, ambivalent in outlook, with a strong directorial signature.
Sombre, measured, measured hungarian / autobiographical, grounded in texture. Ambivalent, mid-stakes, measured.
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