Matt and Mara

Name: Matt and Mara
Genre: Drama
Released: September 13, 2024
Duration: 80 min
Rating: 68

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Cinema Guild | Release Date: September 13, 2024 | Not Rated

Summary: When Mara (Deragh Campbell), a young creative writing professor, reunites with Matt (Matt Johnson), a charismatic, free-spirited author from her past, a chance encounter threatens to spin her life in a thrilling new direction. Bonded by their history and shared interests, the two grow closer, while Mara contends with her strained marriageWhen Mara (Deragh Campbell), a young creative writing professor, reunites with Matt (Matt Johnson), a charismatic, free-spirited author from her past, a chance encounter threatens to spin her life in a thrilling new direction. Bonded by their history and shared interests, the two grow closer, while Mara contends with her strained marriage to an experimental musician. When her husband unexpectedly cancels plans to drive Mara to a conference out of town, Matt accompanies her instead and the pressure in their undefined relationship slowly builds… Expand

Genre(s): Drama

Rating: Not Rated

Runtime: 80 min

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IndieWire Siddhant Adlakha

Sep 7, 2024

Radwanski’s Toronto-set story isn’t quite a linear, didactic affair drama either, but rather, uses its characters as points of rumination on the present, and its fragile nature, embodied by two people with a complicated past and, most likely, no real future. Read full review

Barry Hertz

Oct 1, 2024

There is an intensity and commitment in Campbell’s work that mesmerizes, even frightens, with its sheer boldness. Read full review

The Film Stage Savina Petkova

Sep 5, 2024

With all this at play, Matt and Mara conjures a very particular kind of magic: that of an emotional journey which is shared but never properly enunciated. Read full review

Wendy Ide

Sep 5, 2024

Matt and Mara is one of those films in which very little concrete happens, but the tingling possibility that something might makes it compelling. Read full review

Hannah Strong

Oct 25, 2024

The naturalistic camerawork and performances ground the film in realism, creating a wry dramedy that refuses to placate us with easy answers or condescension. Read full review

The Observer (UK) Wendy Ide

Oct 27, 2024

Radwanski uses restless, handheld cameras and improvisation to capture micro-moments in which not a lot happens but the implications are huge. Read full review

Jeannette Catsoulis

Sep 12, 2024

Matt and Mara is less a movie than an idea for one. It doesn’t help that neither character is likable, or that the director and writer, Kazik Radwanski, fills the screen with close-ups in lieu of information. Read full review

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