This is a lyrical ode to the glories of summer and the collaborative joys of filmmaking, suffused with the hope that we will never be deprived of either for long.
Read full articleA work that possesses both the whimsy and fearlessness of a student project and the technical vibrancy of a veteran’s opus.
Read full articleThe Tsugua Diaries is something like Memento for an age of isolation and listlessness.
Read full articleThe actors’ frayed nerves and hard-won affections—and their cinematic results—reveal their roots in the steadfast artistic purpose and the scary uncertainty of the circumstances that bring them together.
Read full articleA work of quarantine ingenuity, The Tsugua Diaries is a late-summer idyll that both acknowledges the grim circumstances that shaped its making and incorporates discord without ever faltering from its low-key ebullience.
Read full articleThe kind of irritating movie-about-moviemaking comprised more of artistic referents than lived experience.
Read full articleThe Tusgua Diaries blurs the lines between fiction and documentary, and it is something wonderful that most viewers would have never seen before.
Read full articleI found “The Tsugua Diaries” to be a technically interesting filmmaking concept but that same concept kept me at arm’s length and not embracing it. It is interesting, though.
Read full articlecharming and playful while also exploring the dynamics of collaborative filmmaking and the often magical effect of following whims.
Read full articleIf you're going to go to all the trouble of telling your story this way, at least give your leads more discernible character arcs so they can be seen changing or at least learning something along the way.
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