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12/06/05
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Love and Diane (2003)
97 %
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Reviews Counted: 30
Fresh: 29
Rotten:1
Average Rating: 7.8/10
Runtime: 2 hrs 35 mins
Genre: Education/General Interest
Synopsis: "Love & Diane" tells the epic story of a family over three generations. At its heart lies the highly charged relationship between a mother and daughter, desperate for love and forgiveness but struggling against implacable odds. For Love... [More]
Director: Jennifer Dworkin
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03/03/05
Primarily of interest to those in the helping professions, Director Jennifer Dworkin presents this less as a case study than as a study in survival, and proves that strength of character often exists even in situations where abuse has occurred.
07/26/03
An eloquent, unaffected panegyric to a family which confronts every imaginable burden of poverty.
07/22/03
There is meat of humanity here, love both true and forlorn, little shaping beyond the choice of what to include.
07/11/03
Dworkin gives a compassionate face to the miasma of New York's family court-social services matrix.
06/06/03
A velvet-swaddled, iron-fisted documentary that will set standards of vérité filmmaking for years to come.
05/28/03
["Love & Diane"] is an ideal documentary for a two-part POV on public television and is a remarkable feature for docu-maker Dworkin.
05/27/03
both intimate and epic, a compelling observation of the labyrinthine state welfare systems which frustrate with cross purposes and the cyclical nature of abuse and neglect.
05/18/03
A serious and illuminating documentary that, at two hours and 35 minutes, fully devotes itself to painting a family portrait seldom allowed such rich cinematic detail.
05/16/03
Shatters myths and stereotypes about the welfare cycle as it delivers an unforgettable portrait of complex lives still largely ignored by popular culture.
05/15/03
By the time the film ends, we have come to feel that we are practically members of the Hazzard family. The flip side is that we are also exhausted by the numbing accumulation of mundane detail, all too vividly rendered.
05/08/03
Top Critic Dworkin's potent documentary is a definitive distillation of life in America's black underclass.
04/18/03
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