6/7/2023 0 Comments Dear Diary by Jose L Esono![]() This must be the only movie that reminds you of Calvino while including a cameo appearance by Jennifer Beals. Occasionally, brilliantly, he goes entirely off the rails. Often, the film-maker seems to be on a journey without a destination, perhaps without a script. The third section is a coming-to-terms with death, finding if not quite hope, at least a roundabout acceptance of life's strangeness. He then visits the tiny Aeolian islands just off the toe of Calabria, and fails to find much in the way of serenity. The first section follows Moretti roaming around the streets of Rome, and neglecting to find much beauty in this most beautiful of cities. For a start, it seems to be three films in one. It offers not so much a plot as a series of dreamlike paradoxes, a sprawling Rorschach blot in place of a structure. ![]() Initially, I wondered if it was about anything at all. ![]()
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