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Central to Diary of a Film is the question: how do you reconcile life and art, and not settle for a life deferred while art is being made? Maestro’s film is widely expected to win the major prize at the festival, but he is as unsettled and subdued as the director/protagonist of Federico Fellini’s 8 ½. Wandering the streets before the screening, a chance encounter with a stranger, Cosima, appears to sweep away any threat of melancholia and gives him a sense of direction for his next project. As they walk through the city, Maestro learns, in dialogue-heavy scenes that call to min...

Niven Govinden’s Diary of a Film is a beautiful, poignant novel of love and longing 5/5 This tale of a director beguilingly captures the agony of making a film – and letting the public see it 20 February 2021 • 6:00am Timothée Chalamet in Call Me By Your Name, which parallels Diary of a Film  Credit: Film Review Call Me By Your Name “I flew to the Italian city of B. to attend the film festival in late March,” begins the unnamed narrator of Niven Govinden’s slender, beguiling new novel, Diary of a Film. This man is a director in his 50s, with a hefty back catalogue of ­well-rece...