Materna

Name: Materna
Genre: Drama
Released: August 6, 2021
Duration: 105 min
Rating: 52
Cast: Assol Abdullina, Cassandra Freeman, Jade Eshete, Jake Katzman, Jamal Seidakmatova

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Utopia | Release Date: August 6, 2021 | Not Rated

Starring: Assol Abdullina, Cassandra Freeman, Jade Eshete, Jake Katzman, Jamal Seidakmatova, Kate Lyn Sheil, Lindsay Burdge, Michael Chernus, Rory Culkin, Sturgill Simpson

Summary: Materna follows the journeys of four New York women who are isolated by city life, separated by class, politics, race and religion, and yet bound by a shared hunger for identity and connection. With their futures at stake, the characters' lives are upended by a fateful encounter underground, where their stories of personal transformationMaterna follows the journeys of four New York women who are isolated by city life, separated by class, politics, race and religion, and yet bound by a shared hunger for identity and connection. With their futures at stake, the characters' lives are upended by a fateful encounter underground, where their stories of personal transformation become a battle for survival.… Expand

Director: David Gutnik

Genre(s): Drama

Rating: Not Rated

Runtime: 105 min

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Linda Barnard

Aug 11, 2021

While Gutnik has assembled a talented cast, the constraints of a 105-minute runtime means the stories feel underdone in places, including anything about that furiously entitled man in the subway. Read full review

Nick Schager

Aug 9, 2021

The film is formally beautiful almost to a fault, giving it a schematic quality that’s at odds with its roiling emotions. Read full review

Beatrice Loayza

Aug 12, 2021

As it stands, the glue uniting these women of different ethnicities and backgrounds reads like a failed attempt to carve a more ambitious meaning out of individual stories already brimming with possibility. Read full review

Chuck Bowen

Aug 3, 2021

Rarely do the filmmakers show people mutually affecting one another in cycles of pain and control, rather than blaming phantom figures. Read full review

IndieWire Kristen Lopez

Aug 6, 2021

Materna has some good ideas, but the surrounding landscape feels generic. Read full review

RogerEbert.com Tomris Laffly

Aug 6, 2021

The strongest point Gutnik makes with his film is that we all have a concealed story when we share common spaces in silence. But that sadly isn’t enough of a hook to carry out this scattershot effort. Read full review

The Playlist Kristy Puchko

Aug 9, 2021

Ultimately, Materna feels like a hodgepodge of half-finished drafts from one-act plays, pompous short films, and dusty first screenplays. Read full review

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