DIARY FOR MY LOVES

“For me, cinema is like dream and reality at the same time,” as Juli muses at one point in the film. She wants to make documentary films; in another scene she states that she would like to show people’s lives the way they really are. Alas, her first film fails to toe the party line. DIARY FOR MY LOVES, the second instalment of the Diary Trilogy, revolves in constant motion around the questions of what reality, truth and “real life” are, around what must be and what might be. Archival film footage, autobiographical associations and fiction are alternating points of reference for Márta Mészáros’ documentary and feature film hybrids, aspects of an approach testifying to her self-positioning as a director and a chronicler of her time. DIARY FOR MY LOVES won the Silver Bear in Berlin in 1987.