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  • 2018
  • Cargo Films and Releasing
  • 1 h 30 m
  • 2018
  • Cargo Films and Releasing
  • 1 h 30 m

Summary Filmed over three years in China and the U.S., Maineland is a multi-layered coming-of-age tale that follows two affluent and cosmopolitan teenagers as they settle into a boarding school in blue-collar rural Maine. Part of the enormous wave of "parachute students" from China enrolling in U.S. private schools, bubbly, fun-loving Stella and...

  • 2018
  • Cargo Films and Releasing
  • 1 h 30 m
  • 2018
  • Cargo Films and Releasing
  • 1 h 30 m

Maineland

Metascore Mixed or Average Based on 6 Critic Reviews
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Summary Filmed over three years in China and the U.S., Maineland is a multi-layered coming-of-age tale that follows two affluent and cosmopolitan teenagers as they settle into a boarding school in blue-collar rural Maine. Part of the enormous wave of "parachute students" from China enrolling in U.S. private schools, bubbly, fun-loving Stella and...

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Metascore
Mixed or Average Based on 6 Critic Reviews
60
33% Positive
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67% Mixed
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0% Negative
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Mixed or Average Based on 6 Critic Reviews
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33% Positive
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67% Mixed
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80
Mar 14, 2018
Maineland takes up a large and complicated set of topics — the global economy, the shifting relations between East and West, the commodification of American education — and addresses them with understated delicacy.
By A.O. Scott FULL REVIEW
70
Mar 15, 2018
That relaxed joyfulness is balanced by the challenges of the states: weight gain, being stereotyped, the emphasis on fun with friends rather than preparation for all the life ahead. You can see, over the school year Wang documents, the kids’ certainties about what matters most eroding.
By Alan Scherstuhl FULL REVIEW
60
Jun 7, 2018
While it scratches an admittedly reflective surface, you keep hoping the nicely photographed Maineland would have dug a bit deeper.
By Michael Rechtshaffen FULL REVIEW
50
May 29, 2018
Maineland is informative in the most basic ways. But the big hole in Wang’s film is in failing to capture the disconnect, the true culture shock of children of neon bedecked skyscrapers, mansions and coddling parents packed off to the backwoods of Maine. And the second biggest hole is missing the frison that must have been experienced by both sides in this exchange.
By Roger Moore FULL REVIEW
50
Mar 16, 2018
A documentary that offers some fascinating if glancing insights into a rich and timely subject but ends up being more frustrating than enlightening.
By Godfrey Cheshire FULL REVIEW
50
Mar 14, 2018
Wang’s verite approach attempts to strike a tone somewhere between revealing and contemplative, but her principal subjects are too young and inexperienced with the world to have much of import to say.
By Justin Lowe FULL REVIEW

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Production Company Three Waters Productions
Release Date Mar 16, 2018
Duration 1 h 30 m
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Website https://mainelandfilm.com/
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Awards

SXSW Film Festival
• 1 Win & 3 Nominations
Independent Film Festival of Boston
• 1 Win & 1 Nomination
New Hampshire Film Festival
• 1 Win & 1 Nomination

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