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  • 2017
  • Not Rated
  • Outsider Pictures
  • 1 h 45 m
  • 2017
  • Not Rated
  • Outsider Pictures
  • 1 h 45 m

Summary Olga Hepnarova was a young, lonely lesbian outsider from a coldhearted family who couldn’t play the part society desired of her. Her paranoid self-examination and inability to connect with other people eventually drove her over the edge of humanity when she was only twenty-two years old.

Directed By: Petr Kazda, Tomás Weinreb

Written By: Roman Cílek, Tomás Weinreb, Petr Kazda

  • 2017
  • Not Rated
  • Outsider Pictures
  • 1 h 45 m
  • 2017
  • Not Rated
  • Outsider Pictures
  • 1 h 45 m

I, Olga Hepnarová

Metascore Mixed or Average Based on 10 Critic Reviews
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Summary Olga Hepnarova was a young, lonely lesbian outsider from a coldhearted family who couldn’t play the part society desired of her. Her paranoid self-examination and inability to connect with other people eventually drove her over the edge of humanity when she was only twenty-two years old.

Directed By: Petr Kazda, Tomás Weinreb

Written By: Roman Cílek, Tomás Weinreb, Petr Kazda

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Metascore
Mixed or Average Based on 10 Critic Reviews
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40% Mixed
4 Reviews
0% Negative
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Mixed or Average Based on 10 Critic Reviews
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60% Positive
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40% Mixed
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80
Mar 23, 2017
Atmospheric and engrossing, this meticulous recreation of time and place acquires an unsettling contemporary relevance through its analysis of the mindset of a mass murderer with a death wish.
By David Parkinson FULL REVIEW
70
Mar 23, 2017
A top performance for this year so far, Olszanksa's Olga is standoffish, frequently smoldering, rarely smiling, and she toes the line between intelligence and insanity.
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70
Mar 23, 2017
Anchored by a startling performance by Michalina Olszanska, the Czech film “I, Olga Hepnarova” is an austere, hypnotic story of sadness, madness and murder.
By Glenn Kenny FULL REVIEW
63
Mar 20, 2017
The filmmakers take few measures to engender sympathy for Olga, but their prismatic take on her life, while novel, precludes making any resonant statements about homosexuality, emotional health, or humankind’s capacity for evil.
By Christopher Gray FULL REVIEW
60
Mar 23, 2017
Unforgivingly rigorous to its final, exactingly composed monochrome frame, I, Olga Hepnarova shows us scarcely a flickering moment of light or joy in its anti-heroine’s short, loveless life, depicted on screen from adolescence upwards.
By Guy Lodge FULL REVIEW
50
Mar 23, 2017
Olszanska gives an impressively intense performance, if a little too mannered at first, but neither she nor the filmmakers ever get beneath the character's skin.
By Stephen Dalton FULL REVIEW
40
Mar 23, 2017
Even if you go into this film knowing absolutely nothing about the true story on which it’s based...you’ll sense something dreadful is going to happen because so much of it is crushingly dull.
By Leslie Felperin FULL REVIEW

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Production Company Black Balance, Frame100r, Mediabrigade, ALEF Film & Media Group, Love.FRAME, Filmové studio Barrandov, Michael Samuelson Lighting Prague, FAMU, Arizona Films, Polski Instytut Sztuki Filmowej, Odra Film, Státní Fond CR pro Podporu a Rozvoj Ceské Kinematografie, Audiovizuálny fond
Release Date Mar 24, 2017
Duration 1 h 45 m
Rating Not Rated
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Website https://www.facebook.com/Ja-Olga-Hepnarova-1395880307319477
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Awards

Czech Lions
• 3 Wins & 9 Nominations
Sun in a Net Awards, Slovakia
• 1 Win & 5 Nominations
Minsk International Film Festival “Listapad”
• 2 Wins & 2 Nominations

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