
An exhausted, workaholic actress, Anna Baskin, 44, abruptly extricates herself from a successful but mind-numbing TV role, returning to her past life in New York to reinvent herself. But despite the desire for transformation, she cannot find herself outside of her career. When an upsetting personal betrayal unexpectedly leads to the role of her life, she must confront the reality of her past relationships in order to clear a path forward. The intimate story of Anna and her fr... (Full plot summary below)
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An exhausted, workaholic actress, Anna Baskin, 44, abruptly extricates herself from a successful but mind-numbing TV role, returning to her past life in New York to reinvent herself. But despite the desire for transformation, she cannot find herself outside of her career. When an upsetting personal betrayal unexpectedly leads to the role of her life, she must confront the reality of her past relationships in order to clear a path forward. The intimate story of Anna and her friends Isaac and Kate become magnified by the film's surrounding themes: gentrification, addiction, autoimmune disease, burnout, sexism in the film industry and 21st century marketing of the self.
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| Moveable FestStephen SaitoThe way Subrin's mosaic-like structuring comes together is quite rewarding, carefully calibrated in its haunting musical choices and nuanced performances. |
| Arts FuseGerald PearyCredit director Subrin for being resourceful in incorporating her cast's real-life situations into her storytelling. |
| Another GazeHannah PaveckThe distinctiveness of A Woman, a Part emerges instead from the way it situates Anna's crisis within the complexity of decades-long friendships. |
| RogerEbert.comGlenn KennyA Woman, a Part mixes passion and ambivalence to create a work with ambiguities that seem earned, and lived in. |
| VarietyOwen GleibermanA Woman, a Part knows how to hold an audience, and it’s got a fresh, if commercially limited, subject: What happens when hipsters get old. |
| Los Angeles TimesKatie WalshThe film is an astute character study that is analytical but never unemotional. |
| The New York TimesJeannette CatsoulisTouching on issues of artistic survival and the porous boundary between work and pleasure, Ms. Subrin, an accomplished visual artist and filmmaker, sifts addiction, celebrity and the plight of the aging actress into something rarefied yet real. |
| Village VoiceKristen Yoonsoo KimSiff gives a modest but poignant performance that rings true for women of a certain age and career. |
| Spirituality and PracticeFrederic and Mary Ann BrussatPortrait of one woman's resilience as she moves through a difficult mid-life crisis. |
| Screen InternationalWendy IdeThe quality of the performances goes some way towards mitigating the navel-gazing tendencies of the dialogue. Seymour, in particular, gives a lovely, textured vulnerability to recovering alcoholic Kate. |