Love & Diane (2002)
Average Rating: 7.8/10
Reviews Counted: 30
Fresh: 29 | Rotten: 1
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Average Rating: 7.8/10
Critic Reviews: 15
Fresh: 14 | Rotten: 1
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Jennifer Dworkin taught photography workshops in the New York City shelter system, and that's how she eventually met the subjects of her documentary, Love and Diane. Diane Hazzard is a single mother of six children and a recovering crack addict living in Brooklyn. As the film opens, one of her daughters, Love Hinson, has just given birth to a baby boy, Donyaeh. Love and Diane follows the family's trials over nearly three years, as Diane struggles valiantly to reunite her family and regain the
Jan 1, 2002 Wide
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All Critics (33) | Top Critics (16) | Fresh (29) | Rotten (1)
Presents a story as insightful as it is harrowing.
Top CriticA powerful and important film.
Dworkin gives a compassionate face to the miasma of New York's family court-social services matrix.
It is a movie about the real challenge of heroism.
A velvet-swaddled, iron-fisted documentary that will set standards of vérité filmmaking for years to come.
Vivid, accomplished and ultimately soul-touching.
Compelling from beginning to end.
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.
An eloquent, unaffected panegyric to a family which confronts every imaginable burden of poverty.
There is meat of humanity here, love both true and forlorn, little shaping beyond the choice of what to include.
["Love & Diane"] is an ideal documentary for a two-part POV on public television and is a remarkable feature for docu-maker Dworkin.
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.
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