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Diane


Directed by: Kent Jones


2019 | USA | 95 minutes



Screening

Friday, September 13, 2019, 7pm

Matinee

Saturday, September 14, 2019, 3pm

Screening

Saturday, September 14, 2019, 7pm



For Diane, everyone else comes first. Generous but with little patience for self-pity, she spends her days checking in on sick friends, volunteering at her local soup kitchen, and trying valiantly to save her troubled, drug-addicted adult son from himself. But beneath her relentless routine of self-sacrifice, Diane is fighting a desperate internal battle, haunted by past mistakes which threaten to tear her increasingly chaotic world apart.


"Kent Jones has assembled a superb group of character actors here, who tell lived-in stories with extraordinary sensitivity and grace." - Nell Minow, RogerEbert.com


"In the context of the modern multiplex, Diane amounts to an act of cinematic bravery, not just in its choice of tough-sell material, but in the patience with which Jones tends it." - Jeannette Catsoulis, New York Times

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