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The Lost Notebook revolves around a Hungarian man's meticulous records of cinema visits, which forges a connection to his family in the present.. The landscape of documentaries are primarily occupied by stories of people and places who have touched a sense of extraordinary..
The records and pictures, the smallest of details and the legacy of that person in shared memories passed down in the family..
One such contribution of a Hungarian man becomes the subject of this new documentary The Lost Notebook (Drn tabte notesbog), directed by Ida Marie Gedbjerg Srensen..
Marking its premiere at the Copenhagen International Documentary Film Festival, The Lost Notebook revolves around this one man who used to meticulously write down his visits to the cinema..
The Lost Notebook does arrive at the point of view of the second son, but there's a opacity in his manner of talking about his father, a restlessness to get it done with..