Docuseek | Unfinished Diary

In this moving docudrama, Chilean emigre Mallet struggles to make a film about her experience of profound isolation. Her English-speaking husband, a prominent filmmaker, criticizes her subjective approach to filmmaking; their young son, raised in Quebec, speaks only French. Interviews with Isabel Allende and other Chilean exiles reveal a deep bond in this powerful, resonant film about language and gender, exile and immigration.

“The displacements and disjunctions of exile have never been more poignantly conveyed. Mallet uses her domestic space as mirror of the self struggling to find a place to call home. A compelling, resolutely tentative exploration of female subjectivity.” Juliane Burton, UC Santa Cruz

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Mallet, Marilú (film director)
Mallet, Marilú (film producer)
Mallet, Marilú (on-screen participant)
Pinel, Dominique (film producer)
Rubbo, Michael (on-screen participant)
Allende, Isabel (on-screen participant)
Segnoret, Maria Luisa (on-screen participant)

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Music, Michel Descombes; director of photography, Guy Borremans; editing, Marilu Mallet, Pascale Laverrière, Milicska Jalbert.

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Chile,Chilean,emigre,Immigration,Filmmaking,Canada,Isabel Allende,exile; "Unfinished Diary"; Women Make Movies

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