SECRETS OF CINDY
1983
As an art school exercise, the filmmaker and a classmate girlfriend giggle uncontrollably as they read aloud items from each other’s boy-crazy junior high diaries. In dramatized scenes, the filmmaker lives out her middle-school, l’amour fou intrigues; and then there’s her twenty-something romance, which, now a quarter century later, appears as ephemeral and delusional as the diary entries of the 13-year-olds. In ways, this university-produced film, delving into the heartaches of love gone sour, is an exploratory work, returned to with more complexity, and higher stakes, in Passage (1991). Gerald Peary
1983
As an art school exercise, the filmmaker and a classmate girlfriend giggle uncontrollably as they read aloud items from each other’s boy-crazy junior high diaries. In dramatized scenes, the filmmaker lives out her middle-school, l’amour fou intrigues; and then there’s her twenty-something romance, which, now a quarter century later, appears as ephemeral and delusional as the diary entries of the 13-year-olds. In ways, this university-produced film, delving into the heartaches of love gone sour, is an exploratory work, returned to with more complexity, and higher stakes, in Passage (1991). Gerald Peary
