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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Helena Howard
Madeline
Molly Parker
Evangeline
Miranda July
Regina
Okwui Okpokwasili
Nurse, KK
Sunita Mani
Assistant Max
Eva Steinmetz
Claire, Woman in Pig Mask
Felipe Bonilla
Santos, Cousin Elmer
Lolo Haha
Aart
Jorge Torres-Torres
Alejandro, Craps
Lisa B. Tharps
Laura
Director
Josephine Decker
Status
Released
Original Language
EN
Revenue
$185,576
Production
Bow + Arrow Entertainment, Forager Film, Parris Pictures
CinemaSerf
July 19, 2024
I think part of my problem with this was that however experimental the whole concept, or concept within that concept, was meant to be - I just didn't care one way or the other about the eponymous lass (Helena Howard). It didn't start so well with "you are not a cat, you are inside a cat" - not an image I wished to conjure up on any level! Anyway, she is a wanna-be actress who is quite prepared to ...
griggs79
March 24, 2025
I watched _Madeline's Madeline_, mainly because I liked Josephine Decker's later film _Shirley_. This one's trying to do a lot—race, mental health, coming of age, mother-daughter tensions, plus a whole meta-theatre layer—whilst bold, it often felt like it was trying too hard to be important. That said, Helena Howard is phenomenal. It's a breakout performance full of rawness and intensity; she hold...
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