My First Film

Name: My First Film
Genre: Drama
Released: August 30, 2024
Duration: 100 min
Rating: 81

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MUBI | Release Date: August 30, 2024 | Not Rated

Summary: Vita (Odessa Young), revisits her first chaotic attempt at filmmaking - a semi-autobiographical feature made 15 years prior about a young woman who decides to leave home after becoming pregnant. Blending past with present, reality with fiction, Zia Anger’s “debut” film navigates the tumultuous intersection of personal experience andVita (Odessa Young), revisits her first chaotic attempt at filmmaking - a semi-autobiographical feature made 15 years prior about a young woman who decides to leave home after becoming pregnant. Blending past with present, reality with fiction, Zia Anger’s “debut” film navigates the tumultuous intersection of personal experience and narrative innovation, reflecting on the transformative power of artistic self-reflection.… Expand

Genre(s): Drama

Rating: Not Rated

Runtime: 100 min

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RogerEbert.com Sheila O'Malley

Sep 6, 2024

My First Film is very emotional, but it’s also filled with ideas about cinema, being a woman, and creating art. Anger is willing to acknowledge her flaws and shortsightedness, and brave enough to recognize it is our flaws that make us artists, not our perfection. Read full review

IndieWire Natalia Winkelman

Aug 22, 2024

Although it tells of a production gone ostensibly wrong, My First Film is, at its core, a movie not about upheaval but about yearning — and about how, sometimes, giving that yearning up can be a beautiful, generous act of creation all its own. Read full review

Richard Brody

Sep 4, 2024

My First Film, which looks back at a young filmmaker’s crises and conflicts, is both a masterwork of an artistic coming of age and a virtuosic reconception of the art of cinema itself. Read full review

Collider Chase Hutchinson

Aug 28, 2024

This is no romanticized look back at a past film, but a deeply honest one. In every frame, both within the production of the film and outside of it, it feels like we're witnessing something profoundly personal that may soon slip through our fingers. It's worth cherishing every moment of. Read full review

Alissa Wilkinson

Sep 5, 2024

The irony of My First Film is its two layers: It’s not Anger’s first film, nor is it Vita’s, but it tells the story of one that never quite made it into the world. But really, it’s a movie about learning to have compassion for your younger self, for her dreams and foibles and failures. Read full review

The Guardian Leslie Felperin

Sep 3, 2024

You can’t help but admire Anger’s audacity, sly humour and film-making chops. Read full review

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