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  • 2003
  • Women Make Movies
  • 2 h 35 m
  • 2003
  • Women Make Movies
  • 2 h 35 m

Summary Love is the 18-year-old daughter of Diane, a former crack addict who since losing her six children to foster care has managed to reassemble her family, however fragile the arrangement. Filmmaker Jennifer Dworkin spent five years with these women, riding an emotional roller-coaster, as past resentments inform each one's prospects for stab...

Directed By: Jennifer Dworkin

  • 2003
  • Women Make Movies
  • 2 h 35 m
  • 2003
  • Women Make Movies
  • 2 h 35 m

Love and Diane

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Summary Love is the 18-year-old daughter of Diane, a former crack addict who since losing her six children to foster care has managed to reassemble her family, however fragile the arrangement. Filmmaker Jennifer Dworkin spent five years with these women, riding an emotional roller-coaster, as past resentments inform each one's prospects for stab...

Directed By: Jennifer Dworkin

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One of the most searing, heartbreaking and ultimately triumphant mother/daughter stories ever put on film.
By Loren King FULL REVIEW
90
An epic documentary...as rich and teeming as a Balzac novel.
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From first shot to last, Dworkin's movie is a continuously absorbing, sometimes revelatory, frequently moving experience; as documentary filmmaking it's not only amazingly intimate but also characterized by an unexpected lyricism.
By J. Hoberman FULL REVIEW
80
Emerges as an improbably hopeful tribute to the human spirit.
By Scott Tobias FULL REVIEW
80
Extraordinary documentary.
By Ken Fox FULL REVIEW
75
fully devotes itself to painting a family portrait seldom allowed such rich cinematic detail.
By Janice Page FULL REVIEW
75
You are left with two emotions - despair and hope - after watching producer-director Jennifer Dworkin's disquieting documentary.
By V.A. Musetto FULL REVIEW

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Production Company American Spectrum, Arte France Cinéma, Audiovisuel Multimedia International Production (AMIP), Chilmark Productions, ITVS International
Release Date Apr 16, 2003
Duration 2 h 35 m
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Awards

Locarno International Film Festival
• 1 Win & 1 Nomination
Film Independent Spirit Awards
• 1 Win & 1 Nomination
Full Frame Documentary Film Festival
• 1 Win & 1 Nomination

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