In The Bleakly Beautiful 'Diane,' Mary Kay Place Can't Help But Keep Helping
The debut feature of documentary filmmaker Kent Jones paints a loving but clear-eyed portrait of an older woman (Mary Kay Place) enabling her grown, addict son (Jake Lacy).
In his first narrative feature, , the critic and documentary filmmaker Kent Jones () comes in praise of older women, the crankier the better. The troubled New England woman at the center of his drama seems at first to embody a familiar type: the fussy old enabler without a life of her own. But Jones proves a loving, if clear-eyed world-builder who invites us into the
