Madeline's Madeline

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Andrei D Experimental dar cam fara miza Rated 3/5 Stars •  Rated 3 out of 5 stars 08/30/23 Full Review Audience Member A terrrific, offbeat movie that teases out issues of art vs. reality, emotional reality, mental illness, courage, and classic "coming of age" themes, treated unconventionally, but very expressively through dance, hallucinatory passages, and exceptional acting. The performance by the young Helena Howard reveals a new and exciting talent. The movie is also a good warm-up for Decker's more recent work in "Shirley" - which is also strange, evocative, and excellent. Rated 4.5/5 Stars •  Rated 4.5 out of 5 stars 02/08/23 Full Review Audience Member Maybe the worst movie I've ever seen. Pretentious, annoying. Ugh. Rated 0.5/5 Stars •  Rated 0.5 out of 5 stars 01/14/23 Full Review Audience Member So pretentious with far too much style over substance. This film seemed way more concerned with being cool and painting pretty pictures through a series of Instagram filter style shots rather than telling a story. A shame because the subject is interesting, just wasn't realistic and left me feeling cold and ultimately bored. Rated 1.5/5 Stars •  Rated 1.5 out of 5 stars 02/02/23 Full Review wayne m Madeline's Madeline is a messy, infuriating film that never satisfies in any way at all. I don't like using the word pretentious to describe a film, but sadly I feel it is apt here. I can clearly see it as an artistic statement, but as a form of entertainment it is severely lacking. Madeline is a young student who is performing in an impressionistic play group. Her teacher is striving for things very unique. At the same time she has a poor relationship with her mother. I wish I could say more about the story but there really isn't much of one. It just lurches from scene to scene of basically nonsense. I can't really recommend this film at all. Rated 2.5/5 Stars •  Rated 2.5 out of 5 stars 03/31/23 Full Review Audience Member Madelineâ(TM)s Madeline follows Madeline, a young biracial teenager whose mental illness and troubled personal life increasingly becomes the central focus of her participation in an experimental improv theater group. While this might seem like a recipe for a simple coming-of-age drama, it is a fervently experimental project. A seemingly more realistic rendering of Black Swan or Birdman's blurred lines between reality and performance, Madelineâ(TM)s Madeline confines its more surrealist approaches to its narrative, editing and cinematography as a way of depicting Madeline's discordant emotional state. The odd art-world theatrics and jarring cinematic approach of Madelineâ(TM)s Madeline recall the distinctive character of Spike Jonze (Being John Malkovich) and Michel Gondry (Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind) along with the indie eccentricities of Lenny Abrahamson's Frank and Leos Carax's Holy Motors. As such, the unconventional conceptual tact in which Josephine Decker handles Madelineâ(TM)s Madeline strongly encapsulates its character's disorientation. While not initially apparent due to its seeming lack of focus, it slowly sharpens its gaze into a satisfying view of Madeline's personal limbo. Rated 3/5 Stars •  Rated 3 out of 5 stars 02/12/23 Full Review Read all reviews

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