Madeline's Madeline

Madeline's Madeline

2018 · 94 min · EN · NR · 5.8 (75 votes)
Dir. Josephine Decker · Starring Helena Howard, Molly Parker, Miranda July, Okwui Okpokwasili, Sunita Mani, Eva Steinmetz · Music Caroline Shaw
Drama

Madeline has become an integral part of a prestigious physical theater troupe. When the workshop's ambitious director pushes the teenager to weave her rich interior world and troubled history with her mother 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.

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A disorienting dive into the porous boundaries of self and art. It's a fever dream of performance, obsession, and the anxieties of creation, leaving you questioning what's real and who's in control.

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