Chris Knight: Diane is the feature debut of writer/director Kent Jones, who previously made the documentaries A Letter to Elia and Hitchcock/Truffaut
We’ve seen a few films of late about the relationship between parents and adult children with addictions – last year’s powerful Ben Is Back and Beautiful Boy, for instance. Diane is one of those, but it’s also so much more; a character study about a woman with her own full life, one piece of which happens to be her troubled son.
Diane is an ensemble piece as well, but Place’s character is the hinge on which everything swings. We see her spending time with her cousin in hospital, or shooting the breeze with her friend Bobbie, who works with her at the local soup kitchen. Diane helps others because she feels it’s the right thing to do – and perhaps to atone for some perceived sin in her past. But the recipients of her care genuinely appreciate what she does. Not so her son, however; Brian is an addict in the throes of denial, and berates her every time she stops by to make sure he’s alive, and to beg him to get help.
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