

Madeline's Madeline
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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5.9/10
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- Status
- Released
- Budget
- —
- Box office
- $185.6K
- Language
- English
- pregnancy
- theatre group
- coming of age
- mental illness
- dream sequence
- mentor protégé relationship
- woman director
- mother daughter relationship
- reality shifts
- improvisational theatre
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Release dates
United StatesUS
- PremiereSundance Film Festival22 Jan 2018
- Theatrical (limited)NR10 Aug 2018
- Digital / OTTNR29 Aug 2018
- PhysicalNRDVD / BluRay15 Jan 2019
United KingdomGB
- PremiereBFI London Film Festival17 Oct 2018
- Theatrical1510 May 2019
AustraliaAU
- PremiereMelbourne International Film Festival13 Aug 2018
CanadaCA
- PremiereFantasia Film Festival30 Jul 2018
- Theatrical (limited)18A10 Aug 2018
BrazilBR
- Digital / OTT1625 Mar 2021
FinlandFI
- PremiereSeason Film Festival5 May 2021
GermanyDE
- PremiereBerlin International Film Festival17 Feb 2018
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Madeline's Madeline was released on 10 August 2018.
Audience reviews
2- C6/10
CinemaSerf
7/19/2024
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 put in the graft to …
- G5/10
griggs79
3/24/2025
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 holds the whole chaotic …
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