The Rehearsal

Name: The Rehearsal
Genre: Drama
Released: July 7, 2017
Duration: 102 min
Rating: 61
Cast: Alice Englert, Ella Edward, Evan Fenemor, George Phillips, James Rolleston

2017

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Footprint Films | Release Date: July 7, 2017 | Not Rated

Starring: Alice Englert, Ella Edward, Evan Fenemor, George Phillips, James Rolleston, Jamie Curry, Jason Fitch, Kerry Fox, Kieran Charnock, Michelle Ny, Miranda Harcourt, Sadia Gordon, Scott Cotter, Timmie Cameron

Summary: Stanley, a naive 1st year drama student meets Isolde and begins a sweet, first love affair. Goaded by Hannah, the charismatic, domineering Head of Acting, Stanley uncovers a talent and ambition he didn’t know he had. When his group hits on a sex scandal that involves Isolde’s tennis prodigy sister as fertile material for their end-of-yearStanley, a naive 1st year drama student meets Isolde and begins a sweet, first love affair. Goaded by Hannah, the charismatic, domineering Head of Acting, Stanley uncovers a talent and ambition he didn’t know he had. When his group hits on a sex scandal that involves Isolde’s tennis prodigy sister as fertile material for their end-of-year show, Stanley finds himself profoundly torn.… Expand

Director: Alison Maclean

Genre(s): Drama

Rating: Not Rated

Runtime: 102 min

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Owen Gleiberman

Jul 6, 2017

The Rehearsal is engrossing, but it’s not a major vision. Read full review

The Playlist Noel Murray

Jul 6, 2017

Throughout the film, Maclean and Perkins toy with the ever-shifting layers of truth and fiction in a theater rehearsal. But they’re also using Catton’s book to comment on how school can sometimes be a poor preparation for life itself. Read full review

IndieWire Michael Nordine

Jul 6, 2017

Set at a prestigious drama school and frequently engrossing, the film unfolds like an experimental acting workshop that occasionally falters when the plot intrudes on the performances. Read full review

Matt Donato

Jul 6, 2017

The Rehearsal is much like any coming-of-age melodrama, and while its meat is a little overdone, its intro and finale bookends do make up for a lack of flavor in between. Read full review

Glenn Kenny

Jul 6, 2017

At the end Ms. Maclean forsakes all the unsettling subtlety and nuance she has had so clearly in her command to serve up a finale that I found frankly confounding, despite its having been foreshadowed. Read full review

John DeFore

Jul 6, 2017

Treating the subject of creative exploitation not with overheated moralism but as a year-in-the-life social chronicle, the picture makes a solid, if very tardy, follow-up to the director's 1999 breakout Jesus' Son. Read full review

Ignatiy Vishnevetsky

Jul 6, 2017

The Rehearsal, director Alison Maclean’s first feature since the 1999 Denis Johnson adaptation Jesus’ Son, is such a hodgepodge of arthouse references, arch distancing effects, and emotionally vacant wide-screen compositions that one could easily mistake it for an awkward debut film. Read full review

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