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In Berlinale Film ‘Paradises of Diane,’ a Woman Abandons Her Baby but Finds Herself: ‘We Don’t Want to Judge Her’
'Paradises of Diane,' which premiered in the Panorama section of the Berlin Film Festival, came out of an exploration of the 'dark side of maternity.'
“Paradises of Diane,” which premiered in the Panorama section of the Berlin Film Festival, came out of an exploration of the “dark side of maternity” and the role of the mother in society, director Carmen Jaquier tells Variety. The film, which was directed with Jan Gassmann, starts with Diane abandoning her new-born baby at a maternity clinic in Zurich, and heading to the seedy Spanish seaside resort Benidorm, without telling anyone. When writing the script Jaquier says they were “super connected” to Diane and her experience, but when she and Gassmann started to pitch the project to film funders and received feedback about the subject of a mother abandoning her baby they “realized how violent it could be for other people and that they couldn’t have any empathy for her.”
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