MATANGI/MAYA/M.I.A.

Name: MATANGI/MAYA/M.I.A.
Genre: Biography, Music, Documentary
Released: September 28, 2018
Duration: 96 min
Rating: 70
Cast: M.I.A.

2018

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Abramorama | Release Date: September 28, 2018 | Not Rated

Starring: M.I.A.

Summary: Drawn from a cache of personal video recordings from the past 22 years, Matangi/Maya/M.I.A. is a startlingly personal profile of the critically acclaimed artist, chronicling her remarkable journey from refugee immigrant to pop star. She began as Matangi. Daughter of the founder of Sri Lanka’s armed Tamil resistance, she hid from theDrawn from a cache of personal video recordings from the past 22 years, Matangi/Maya/M.I.A. is a startlingly personal profile of the critically acclaimed artist, chronicling her remarkable journey from refugee immigrant to pop star. She began as Matangi. Daughter of the founder of Sri Lanka’s armed Tamil resistance, she hid from the government in the face of a vicious and bloody civil war. When her family fled to the UK, she became Maya, a precocious and creative immigrant teenager in London. Finally, the world met her as M.I.A. when she emerged on the global stage, having created a mashup, cut-and-paste identity that pulled from every corner of her journey along the way. Never one to compromise on her vision, Maya kept her camera rolling throughout.… Expand

Director: Stephen Loveridge

Genre(s): Biography, Music, Documentary

Rating: Not Rated

Runtime: 96 min

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Serena Donadoni

Sep 26, 2018

With Matangi/Maya/M.I.A., Loveridge celebrates the mashup aesthetic that enabled the artist to find a voice, and reveals that reconciling contradictions — like an outrageous sense of humor and earnest political activism — is key to both Arulpragasam’s music and the life she’s constructed with audacity and wit. Read full review

IndieWire David Ehrlich

Sep 25, 2018

A lucid crystallization of both Arulpragasam’s private life and her public mission, Matangi/Maya/M.I.A. offers an intimate profile of a righteously modern renegade without ever feeling like propaganda or a plea to stream her latest album on Spotify. Read full review

Empire Amon Warmann

Sep 24, 2018

An intimate, illuminating doc that puts the focus on M.I.A.’s activism instead of her music and is, in some ways, all the more admirable for it. Read full review

Sam C. Mac

Mar 20, 2018

Stephen Loveridge fully understands that even the trifurcated title of his film may not be entirely equipped at capturing the extent of M.I.A.'s many-faceted identity. Read full review

Movie Nation Roger Moore

Sep 25, 2018

Her style, smart outspokenness, controlling her image and art, are a wonder to behold. Read full review

Guy Lodge

Aug 29, 2018

It’s a film as compellingly all over the shop as its subject, even if it doesn’t quite have her beat on stylistic verve and risk. Read full review

Glenn Kenny

Sep 27, 2018

The documentary elicits some viewer indignation on her behalf, but overall, it’s not a very inspired piece of work. While it depicts M.I.A.’s bristling at being called a terrorist advocate, it never wholly clarifies her specific political aims. Read full review

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Mar 12, 2019

Talented, brilliant, incredible, amazing, show stopping, spectacular, never the same, totally unique, completely not ever been done before, unafraid to reference or not reference, put it in a blender, **** on it, vomit on it, eat it, give birth to it

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