Housekeeping for Beginners

Name: Housekeeping for Beginners
Genre: Drama, Comedy
Released: April 5, 2024
Duration: 107 min
Rating: 80
Cast: Aleksandra Pesevska, Alina Serban, Anamaria Marinca, Dzada Selim, Filip Trajkovic

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Focus Features | Release Date: April 5, 2024 | Not Rated

Starring: Aleksandra Pesevska, Alina Serban, Anamaria Marinca, Dzada Selim, Filip Trajkovic, Irena Ristic, Mia Mustafi, Rozafa Celaj, Samson Selim, Sara Klimoska, Vladimir Tintor

Summary: Dita, despite never aspiring to be a mother, finds herself compelled to raise her girlfriend’s two daughters—Mia, a tiny troublemaker, and Vanesa, a rebellious teenager. As their individual wills clash, a heartwarming story unfolds about an unlikely family's struggle to stay together.

Director: Goran Stolevski

Genre(s): Drama, Comedy

Rating: Not Rated

Runtime: 107 min

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Katie Walsh

Apr 4, 2024

Within "Housekeeping’s” restless, naturalistic aesthetic, Stolevski crafts complex and poignant images, contrasting the playacting the couple is forced to do with their searing gazes. Read full review

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Wendy Ide

Apr 4, 2024

Stolevski’s handling of the balance between jostling high spirits and the creeping dread of loss is supremely confident; his storytelling is fresh, authentic and genuinely exciting. Read full review

Guy Lodge

Apr 4, 2024

Stolevski’s lively, garrulous script may be plot-heavy, but the film isn’t propelled as much by grand narrative turns as it is by the powderkeg reactivity of its characters. Each scrap and squabble and occasional flash of understanding between them activates the film anew, so no interpersonal dynamic here ever feels comfortably settled. Read full review

Leslie Felperin

Apr 4, 2024

Writer-director Goran Stolevski’s Housekeeping for Beginners (Domakinstvo za pocetnici) is a fizzy, huggable portrait of a self-made, roughly blended queer family. Read full review

Johanna Schneller

Apr 12, 2024

In lesser hands, this chaos might tumble into melodrama or farce. But Stolevski’s actors deliver such naturalistic performances, and he writes such specific dialogue . . . that you care deeply about what happens to these people. Read full review

Collider Taylor Gates

Apr 4, 2024

The film manages to capture the specific way queer communities communicate with one another and the unique chemistry between them in a way few others have. Read full review

Kyle Turner

Apr 2, 2024

In spite of the too-muchness of their performances, the actors wrestle for expressiveness and subtlety against the script’s more obvious and schematic telegraphing of not-quite-nuclear discontent and, ultimately, reconciliation. Read full review

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