A Woman, a Part

Released Mar 22, 2017

1h 37m

Drama

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Workaholic actress Anna Baskin (Maggie Siff), 44, abruptly extricates herself from a successful but mind-numbing TV role, returning to her past life in New York to reinvent herself. But despite the desire for transformation, she cannot find herself outside of her career. When an upsetting personal betrayal unexpectedly leads to the role of her life, she must confront the reality of her past relationships to clear a path forward.

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Overall I liked the film, It's a slow paced deep thought movie.

Rated 4 out of 5 stars

02/16/23

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An intense character study, as well as an examination on the fallacy of success, A Woman, A Part is certain to go down as one of the year's most accomplished debut features. Writer/director Elizabeth Subrin captures her film with a sense of intimacy and distress that is seldom seen in American cinema, and its astonishing to see how much it resembles John Cassavetes (perhaps the title is even a nod to A Woman Under the Influence). It's an often rough film that looks at a damaged set of characters, but it avoids being overtly grim by having sparkles of humor, and even a deceptive tone that's ultimately optimistic. Maggie Siff (perhaps best known for her TV roles on Sons of Anarchy and Mad Men) gives a towering performance here as an actress torn between her career and her morals, and one must think how much of her own experience is placated in the film. Nicely paced and wisely budgeted, A Woman, A Part is a strong picture all around, and one that establishes Elisabeth Subrin as a talent to acknowledge.

Rated 4 out of 5 stars

01/23/23

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Elisabeth Subrin

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Maggie Siff

Anna

Dagmara Domińczyk

Nadia

Khandi Alexander

Leslie

John Ortiz

Isaac

Cara Seymour

Kate

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Owen Gleiberman

Variety

"A Woman, a Part" knows how to hold an audience, and it's got a fresh, if commercially limited, subject: What happens when hipsters get old.

Mar 28, 2017

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Kristen Yoonsoo Kim

Village Voice

Siff gives a modest but poignant performance that rings true for women of a certain age and career.

Mar 22, 2017

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Glenn Kenny

RogerEbert.com

A Woman, a Part mixes passion and ambivalence to create a work with ambiguities that seem earned, and lived in.

Rated: 3/4

Mar 22, 2017

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Mat Bradley-Tschirgi

Battleship Pretension

As far as directorial debuts go, A Woman, a Part is middling. We've all seen this story about an actress' life on the skids before. I'm sure Subrin has a great film in her; she's just not there yet.

Dec 8, 2020

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Stephen Saito

Moveable Fest

The way Subrin's mosaic-like structuring comes together is quite rewarding, carefully calibrated in its haunting musical choices and nuanced performances.

Nov 1, 2018

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Gerald Peary

Arts Fuse

Credit director Subrin for being resourceful in incorporating her cast's real-life situations into her storytelling.

Jan 24, 2018

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Synopsis

Workaholic actress Anna Baskin (Maggie Siff), 44, abruptly extricates herself from a successful but mind-numbing TV role, returning to her past life in New York to reinvent herself. But despite the desire for transformation, she cannot find herself outside of her career. When an upsetting personal betrayal unexpectedly leads to the role of her life, she must confront the reality of her past relationships to clear a path forward.

Director: Elisabeth Subrin
Producer: Maggie Siff, Ahsan Zaman
Screenwriter: Elisabeth Subrin
Distributor: Strand Releasing
Production Co: Speculative Pictures, Strand Releasing
Genre: Drama
Original Language: English
Release Date (Theaters): Mar 22, 2017, Limited
Release Date (Streaming): Jun 13, 2017
Box Office (Gross USA): $23.6K
Runtime: 1h 37m

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