Josephine Decker’s MADELINE’S MADELINE opens Friday at AFS Cinema

MADELINE’S MADELINE opens on Friday, August 31st at AFS Cinema. Tickets are on sale now.

Josephine Decker (BUTTER ON THE LATCH, THOU WAST MILD AND LOVELY) is back with her newest feature, a favorite at this year’s Sundance Film Festival. Madeline (newcomer Helena Howard) has become an integral part of a prestigious physical theater troupe. When the workshop’s ambitious director (Molly Parker) pushes the teenager to weave her rich interior world and troubled history with her mother (Miranda July) 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. Hailed as “one of the boldest and most invigorating American films of the 21st century,” this inventive film is one you won’t want to miss.

Here’s what the critics are saying:

“In the role of Madeline, Howard delivers a performance that is one of the most distinctive, most varied, and most extreme in its expressive array and technical power, of any teen performer in the history of cinema.” Richard Brody, The New Yorker

“Helena Howard makes a heart-stopping professional debut as Madeline caught between Molly Parker’s manipulative acting teacher and Miranda July’s differently manipulative mom.” Bob Mondello, NPR

“One of the year’s headiest, most dazzlingly assured moviegoing experiences.” Justin Chang, Los Angeles Times

“Writer-director Josephine Decker more than earns the label “auteur,” and all the connotations that come with it.” Leah Greenblatt, Entertainment Weekly

Check out the trailer for Madeline’s Madeline below: