Rotten Tomatoes
Cancel Movies Tv shows FanStore News Showtimes

Ayka

Play trailer Poster for Ayka 2018 1h 50m Drama Play Trailer Watchlist
Watchlist Tomatometer Popcornmeter
83% Tomatometer 12 Reviews Popcornmeter Fewer than 50 Ratings
Ayka, a young woman from Kyrgyzstan, has just enough money to make ends meet. When she becomes pregnant, she does not know how to feed the child, and leaves her son immediately after birth and flees.

Critics Reviews

View All (12) Critics Reviews
Leslie Felperin The Hollywood Reporter Dvortsevoy deserves praise for making a film willing to show a woman ready to do anything she can to live, unafraid if those choices make her character unsympathetic. May 18, 2018 Full Review Yasser Medina Cinefilia Dvortsevoy, with dense aesthetics and cold atmospheres, offers here a heartbreaking portrait of immigration and maternal sacrifices, which often raises its quota of realism with a rather organic performance by Samal Yeslyamova. [Full review in Spanish] Rated: 7/10 Oct 17, 2024 Full Review Tom O'Brien Next Best Picture Yeslyamova's Ayka is the focus of almost every scene, allowing the actress to move from showing bitter tears to becoming doggedly determined, sometimes even within the course of one scene. Rated: 7/10 Jun 14, 2022 Full Review Ignacio Pablo Rico El antepenúltimo mohicano The ambiguity that surrounds this desperate woman [is] never approached by Dvortsevoy with false bourgeois compassion. [Full review in Spanish] Rated: 3/5 Jul 24, 2020 Full Review Matt Cipolla Film Monthly Ayka may be depressed and chronically enfeebled, but she surely isn't bored. The audience, however? That's another conclusion to come to. Rated: 2/5 Jul 24, 2020 Full Review Daniel de Partearroyo Cinemanía (Spain) Samal Yeslyamova, who debuted as an actress in [Sergey]Dvortsevoy's previous film (Tulpan, 2008) embodies... theoretical and material angst. [Full review in Spanish] Rated: 3/5 Jul 7, 2020 Full Review Read all reviews

Audience Reviews

View All (2) audience reviews
Audience Member With 'Ayka', director Sergei Dvortsevoy has proven to be a contemporary master of the classic impetus of Russian art: depicting the depths of human suffering, despair, and the lengths at which one might go to simply remain alive. Leading actress Samal Yeslyamova goes beyond mere acting and gloriously succeeds in telling her story through minimal dialogue and maximal emotional performance. The story does stumble a bit throughout the first act, but it is sufficiently augmented by a gripping third act and an emotionally draining ending. Rated 4 out of 5 stars 02/12/23 Full Review Audience Member O wiązaniu końca z końcem. Beznadziejność, pot, ból i krew Rated 3 out of 5 stars 01/26/23 Full Review Read all reviews
Ayka

My Rating

Read More Read Less POST RATING WRITE A REVIEW EDIT REVIEW

Cast & Crew

Show Less Cast & Crew Show More Cast & Crew
View All Ayka photos

Ayka

Ayka (2018) View more photos

Movie Info

Synopsis Ayka, a young woman from Kyrgyzstan, has just enough money to make ends meet. When she becomes pregnant, she does not know how to feed the child, and leaves her son immediately after birth and flees.
Director
Sergeï Dvortsevoï
Screenwriter
Sergeï Dvortsevoï, Guennadi Ostrovsky
Genre
Drama
Original Language
Russian
Runtime
1h 50m