Unfinished Diary (1982)

Director: Marilú Mallet

In this heartwarming docudrama, Chilean immigrant Marilú Mallet strives to make a film about her experience of deep isolation. Her English-speaking husband, a prominent film director, criticizes her subjective approach to filmmaking; her young son, raised in Quebec, speaks only French. Interviews with Isabel Allende and other Chilean exiles reveal a deep bond in this powerful and resonant film about language and genre, exile and immigration.

Cast

Nicolas Rubbo

The son

Isabel Allende

The friend of childhood

Marilú Mallet

The filmmaker

Michael Rubbo

The husband

María Luisa Segnoret

The mother

Salvador Fisciella

The refugee

Octavio Lafourcade

The musician