Maya Dardel

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Maya Dardel

Released Oct 27, 2017

1h 44m

Drama

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An internationally respected poet announces she is going to kill herself and needs an heir and executor. Young writers drive up the mountain to compete for the position and are challenged intellectually and emotionally.

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Sheri Linden

Los Angeles Times

A movie that's by turns off-putting, bracingly incisive and insufferable.

Nov 2, 2017

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Sheila O'Malley

RogerEbert.com

The film has much to recommend it, in particular its lack of sentimentality about suicide, art, womanhood.

Rated: 3/4

Oct 27, 2017

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Teo Bugbee

New York Times

The red-blooded vivacity of Ms. Olin's performance ... pierces through the muck. She chews feeble lines like meat, spitting out the masticated remains.

Oct 26, 2017

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Kip Mooney

College Movie Review

Lena Olin is captivating as Maya.

Rated: B-

Aug 24, 2021

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Jim Ross

TAKE ONE Magazine

Originally titled A CRITICALLY ENDANGERED SPECIES, as if to imply the threat to genuine creatives, the threat to this film is very much an internal one.

Feb 13, 2020

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Deborah Krieger

Bust Magazine

Perhaps it's not the most exciting or invigorating film, but as a thesis statement, it's certainly worthwhile.

Jan 4, 2018

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Audience Member

Loved it. That girl is bad!

Rated 5 out of 5 stars

02/15/23

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Audience Member

This is a nice escape from the surveillance state. No social media in this baby. The message, delivered in registers of self-aware arrogance, is a solid one. Sad, if you're my age. Good sad, though.

Rated 5 out of 5 stars

02/02/23

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Audience Member

First of all, the look of the thing. A woman's world depicted so sensually, like everything is a delicate spiderweb. Next, the plot and dialogue, the whole idea. Okay, I can see why this aspect is polarizing. But give it a chance. I'm worried most of the humor is so understated that people can think this film is snobby, but watch carefully. Everything has a funny, clever reverse side to it. The beginning is funny in a more standard way, but the rest of the film, the humor is very understated.

Rated 5 out of 5 stars

02/03/23

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Audience Member

Between a 6/10 and 7/10, as good as this film can be its sum is not as good or interesting as its individual parts even if Lena Olin's performance is.

Rated 3.5 out of 5 stars

01/25/23

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Audience Member

This movie is a mind-numbing train-wreck that you can't look away from because you think it can't possibly get any worse....but it does. With slight glimpses of clarity, this movie is a sterile view of the world and a vain reflection on the writers' view on morality, humanity and mortality.

Rated 2 out of 5 stars

01/28/23

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mike w

I will give two stars for the acting, direction, etc., but the character herself is such a vapid, immature, self-absorbed pseudo-intellectual twit I found it impossible to watch, quit after 30 minutes. A repulsive, unlikelable character without a shred of humility or common sense.

Rated 2 out of 5 stars

03/31/23

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An internationally respected poet announces she is going to kill herself and needs an heir and executor. Young writers drive up the mountain to compete for the position and are challenged intellectually and emotionally.

Director: Zachary Cotler, Magdalena Zyzak
Producer: Dariusz Jabłoński, Violetta Kaminska, Izabela Wojcik, Morgan Jon Fox
Screenwriter: Zachary Cotler, Magdalena Zyzak
Distributor: Samuel Goldwyn Films
Production Co: Samuel Goldwyn Films, Orion Pictures
Genre: Drama
Original Language: English
Release Date (Theaters): Oct 27, 2017, Limited
Release Date (Streaming): Sep 8, 2017
Runtime: 1h 44m

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