‘Diane’ Review: Mary Kay Place Delivers a Heartbreaking Performance in Kent Jones’ Spiritual Character Study — Tribeca

There’s a famous passage from Paul Bowles’ “The Sheltering Sky” that continues to resonate because of how plainly it speaks to the bittersweet shortsightedness of being alive: “Because we don’t know when we will die, we get to think of life as an inexhaustible well.

Yet everything happens only a certain number of times, and a very small number really… And yet it all seems limitless.”Of all the references sewn into the fabric of Kent Jones’ first narrative feature — the revered film critic and programmer nods to Paul Schrader, Bob Dylan, and executive producer Martin Scorsese among others in his chilly amuse-bouche of artistic inspirations — Bowles isn’t high on the list.

Jones is too hyper-literate and omnivorous to be unfamiliar with the book, but even filmmaker Matías Piñeiro and Stephin Merritt serve as more explicit muses for this intimate drama.And yet, Bowles’ writing — his resigned

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