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A FILM WORTH A CLOSER LOOKTHE FEATURE PRESENTATION
IF THIS ONE STAYED WITH YOU
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SIMILAR PICKS / A PERSONAL CONNECTION
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Why this pick
This formally adventurous drama-documentary watches an actor’s research and performance begin to blur with her inner life, sharing Madeline’s Madeline’s fascination with artistic process and unstable boundaries.
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Why this pick
Josephine Decker again uses tactile sound, fragmented subjectivity, and charged female dynamics to make creativity feel both liberating and invasive, though in a more period-inflected setting.
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Why this pick
A psychologically raw portrait of a woman under emotional strain, shaped by disorienting sound and close, volatile performances rather than tidy explanation.
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Why this pick
Two actors’ fraught friendship becomes an unnerving study of performance, envy, and identity; its subjective shifts preserve the uncomfortable uncertainty and emotional exposure of Decker’s film.
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Why this pick
A daughter confronting family pressure and grief is embodied by two performers playing facets of one woman, giving its domestic conflict a theatrical, inward-looking form.
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01 / THE STORY
Madeline is a lonely teenager who is part of a professional acting ensemble creating an experimental theater performance about the Three Little Pigs using improvisation. She enjoys the company of the other actors and their director Evangeline, and dreads having to go home to her mother Regina who doesn't understand Madeline and often starts arguments. One day at rehearsal, Madeline confesses to Evangeline that she had a dream in which she placed a hot iron on her mother. Evangeline is really struck by this dream, and she decides to have the performers recreate the dream in an improv exercise. Madeline gets overwhelmed at how her life is conflating with her art and wanders out of the theater alone while Regina looks for her. After she finds Madeline, Regina discovers that Madeline's prescription for an unspecified mental illness has run out, and she struggles to get it quickly refilled.
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02 / FACES IN THE FRAME
Evangeline
Assistant Max
Laura
Hollie, Dr. French
Onur
George's Stepdad
Njiri
Carrie
