
A theatre director's latest project takes on a life of its own when her young star takes her performance too seriously.... (Full plot summary below)
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A theatre director's latest project takes on a life of its own when her young star takes her performance too seriously.
Leave your thoughts about Madeline's Madeline.
| DeciderJoe ReidMadeline's Madeline is a challenge worth taking on, if only so you can experience the breakthrough performance by young Helena Howard. |
| NOW TorontoNorman WilnerIndeed, what Decker does behind the camera is just as daring, and as artful, as what Howard does in front of it. |
| NPRAndrew LapinThe film is anchored at every turn by newcomer Helena Howard's big, brash and brilliant lead performance. |
| 812filmreviewsRobert DanielsDecker stretches the medium, creating a film that is at once uncomfortable and brilliant in its examination of intellectual and emotional appropriation. |
| Minneapolis Star TribuneColin CovertWatching a once-in-a-generation talent like Howard work at this early point feels like entering a tall building on the ground floor. There's little doubt she will escalate from here. |
| NewcityRay PrideA kaleidoscopic, bite-sized variation on the acreage of theater-company rehearsals in Rivette's Out 1...The hall of mirrors refracts; the world turns, the world burns, and the results are obtuse, open-faced, freeing, thrilling, so damnably lovely. |
| Boston GlobeTy BurrIn a way I’ve never before seen done onscreen, Madeline’s Madeline fuses triumph and tragedy until the two feel strong and indistinguishable. |
| The ARTerySean BurnsFragmented, occasionally frustrating and ultimately ecstatic. |
| Cambridge DayTom MeekThere's also a splash of Mother! wildness in there, but it's fresh and new; my comparisons may be spot on and are irrelevant just the same. |
| Arts FusePeg AloiIndie filmmaker Josephine Decker has come up with a brilliant showcase for Helena Howard, whose performance is electrifying. |