Madeline's Madeline (2018)
3.3 of 5 from 55 ratings
1h 34min
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- Synopsis:
- Madeline (newcomer Helena Howard) has become an integral part of a prestigious physical theater troupe. When the workshop's ambitious director (Molly Parker) pushes the teenager to weave her rich interior world and troubled history with her mother (Miranda July) into their collective art, the lines between performance and reality begin to blur. The resulting battle between imagination and appropriation rips out of the rehearsal space and through all three women's lives.
- Actors:
- Helena Howard, Molly Parker, Miranda July, Okwui Okpokwasili, Sunita Mani, Felipe Bonilla, Lisa Tharps, Curtiss Cook, Reynaldo Piniella, Myra Lucretia Taylor, Jamal Batts, Blake Baumgartner, Julee Cerda, Isolde Chae-Lawrence, Eston Clare Jr., Emily Decker, Dana Eskelson, Suzette Gunn, Lolo Haha, Mike Hodge
- Directors:
- Josephine Decker
- Producers:
- Krista Parris, Elizabeth Rao
- Writers:
- Josephine Decker, Gail Segal, Donna di Novelli, Sharon Mashihi, Alexandra Tatarsky
- Aka:
- Movie No. 1
- Genres:
- Drama, Thrillers
- BBFC:
- Release Date:
- Not released
- Run Time:
- 96 minutes
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Reviews (1) of Madeline's Madeline
No shortage of ideas - Madeline's Madeline review by griggs
I watched Madeline's Madeline, mainly because I liked Josephine Decker's later film Shirley. This one's trying to do a lot—race, mental health, coming of age, mother-daughter tensions, plus a whole meta-theatre layer—whilst bold, it often felt like it was trying too hard to be important. That said, Helena Howard is phenomenal. It's a breakout performance full of rawness and intensity; she holds the whole chaotic thing together. Miranda July felt oddly constrained by the direction, somewhat hemmed in a film that encourages improvisation and emotional looseness, which is her bread and butter but denied to her here. There's no shortage of ideas here, and it's definitely interesting. Still, it left me admiring the ambition rather than enjoying the ride.
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