Madeline's Madeline

Nominee
Audience Award ~ Best of Next!
Sundance Film Festival
One of the year's headiest, most dazzlingly assured moviegoing experiences.
-- Justin Chang, Los Angeles Times

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Madeline's Madeline

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.

Writer-director Josephine Decker has long been an independent filmmaker to admire, utilizing a welcome expressionistic approach that imbues her subjects with a vibrant sense of urgency. Anchored by a virtuoso performance from newcomer Helena Howard, whose powerful screen presence commands attention, Decker’s film displays a rare sensitivity for capturing the messy struggles of discovering a sense of one's self that defies easy narrative categorization.
Not Rated
Genre
Drama, Mystery, Thriller, Women and Film
Runtime
90
Language
English
Director
Josephine Decker
Writer(s)
Josephine Decker
Cast
Helena Howard, Miranda July
Awards:
Nominee, Audience Award ~ Best of Next!, Sundance Film Festival
FEATURED REVIEW
Stuart Klawans, The Nation

Now you can reassure yourself that you’ve been seeing everything through the eyes of a disturbed girl. Her emotions splash everywhere, her imagination sloshes woozily, and the theater workshop in which you’ve seen her rehearse must be making her worse. But then, which would you rather do: sit back ...

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