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- 2021
- R
- Netflix
- 1 h 46 m
- 2021
- R
- Netflix
- 1 h 46 m
Summary A filmmaker (John David Washington) returns home with his girlfriend (Zendaya) following a celebratory movie premiere as he awaits what’s sure to be imminent critical and financial success. The evening suddenly takes a turn as revelations about their relationships begin to surface, testing the strength of their love.
- 2021
- R
- Netflix
- 1 h 46 m
- 2021
- R
- Netflix
- 1 h 46 m
Malcolm & Marie
53
5.9
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Summary A filmmaker (John David Washington) returns home with his girlfriend (Zendaya) following a celebratory movie premiere as he awaits what’s sure to be imminent critical and financial success. The evening suddenly takes a turn as revelations about their relationships begin to surface, testing the strength of their love.
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Metascore
Mixed or Average
Based on 44 Critic Reviews
53
39% Positive
17 Reviews
17 Reviews
43% Mixed
19 Reviews
19 Reviews
18% Negative
8 Reviews
8 Reviews
Metascore
Mixed or Average
Based on 44 Critic Reviews
53
39% Positive
17 Reviews
17 Reviews
43% Mixed
19 Reviews
19 Reviews
18% Negative
8 Reviews
8 Reviews
in addition to the quality of its dialogue, Levinson’s script is a testament to the value of talking and listening, past the point of discomfort, past the point it hurts.
Zendaya and John David Washington deliver career-best performances in this mesmerising two-hander that ruminates on love, life and art.
User Score
Mixed or Average
Based on 114 User Ratings
5.9
45% Positive
51 Ratings
51 Ratings
34% Mixed
39 Ratings
39 Ratings
21% Negative
24 Ratings
24 Ratings
User Score
Mixed or Average
Based on 114 User Ratings
5.9
45% Positive
51 Ratings
51 Ratings
34% Mixed
39 Ratings
39 Ratings
21% Negative
24 Ratings
24 Ratings
This movie look into the day in the life of most Relationships where augments meets ideals beliefs and Truths with unyielding emotions. Both artists gave uncut realistic views from both spectrums.
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The seductive fluidity of the camerawork, as much as the punchy performances and muscular writing, keep Malcolm & Marie compelling even when it risks becoming an extended exercise in style.
Levinson has ripped quite a few rock ’em-sock ’em pages from the John Cassavetes tradition, as well as Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? But if the couple’s fighting is amusing at times, it’s mostly lacerating and circular in a way that courts boredom rather than sympathy or any other deep, honest response.
Sam Levinson’s Malcolm & Marie is a purposely self-absorbed meta-narrative about a navel-gazing director at odds with his muse—an enticing premise on paper—that too often obscures its heart in lieu of tedious diatribes.
All this cinema-talk analysis is tedious, making the movie Malcolm made sound tedious, too. And all this theatricality in the writing, blocking and acting always leads to a film that keeps the viewer at arm’s length. No amount of Washington shouting or Zendaya overwhelmed in his tsunami of speechifying changes that.
Malcolm & Marie is the worst kind of self-indulgent nonsense. It is an obnoxious gripe about everything and anything that is so devoid of wit and imagination that it ends up being about nothing at all.
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English Review
The young couple of Malcolm and Marie (John David Washington and Zendaya) arrive at an impressive house in Malibu. He is a film maker who has just released his debut feature, and everything indicates that it will be a success. She, an actress who has had addiction problems. Both will engage in a series of recriminations and arguments. Sam Levinson directs this elegant drama, beautifully photographed in black and white and aims to reflect a crisis triggered by that premiere.
Malcolm & Marie has no shortage of themes, which, like theatrical works, reveal ever deeper facets of their characters: inspiration in real people and situations (with their permissions and implications), their relationship with critics, their belongings cultural and racial and its presumed legitimizing role, the link between a director and an actress wife.
Malcolm is an outgoing, narcissistic, and partly resentful character. His character begins very "up" and borders on the unbearable and from the beginning marks the contrast with the more introverted Marie, who feels displaced.
The structure of the film could be summarized as a series of verbal skirmishes in charge of one or the other with successful moments of silence, with a virtuous camera direction that seeks to translate the theatrical essence of the dialogues into cinematographic terms.
But unfortunately we are not facing "Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf" far from it. There is something that is not working (despite the good acting, especially Zendaya's) that hinders the emotional (and also the intellectual) connection with the characters: the lack of dramatic progression and the overly analytical or cerebral nature of the dialogues. and discussions, which erupt almost from the beginning and with little incubation time.
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Abstract Español
Una crisis entre un director de cine y su pareja actriz se detona luego del estreno de la opera prima del primero. Malcolm & Marie luce una virtuosa dirección de cámaras que busca dinamizar la esencia teatral de lo diálogos y buenas actuaciones; sin embargo, la falta de progresión dramática y la naturaleza demasiado analítica y cerebral de los diálogos y discusiones, que estallan casi desde el comienzo y con poco tiempo de incubación, obstaculizan la conexión emocional (e incluso intelectual) con los personajes.
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Reseña Español
La joven pareja integrada por Malcolm y Marie (John David Washington y Zendaya) llega a una impresionante casa en Malibú. Él es un director que acaba de estrenar su ópera prima, y todo indica que será un éxito. Ella, una actriz que ha tenido problemas de adicción. Ambos se enzarzarán en una serie de recriminaciones y discusiones. Sam Levinson dirige este elegante drama, bellamente fotografiado en blanco y negro y pretende reflejar una crisis detonada por ese estreno.
No le faltan temas a Malcolm & Marie, que a la manera de las obras teatrales, va revelando facetas cada vez más profundas de su personajes: la inspiración en personas y situaciones reales (con sus permisos, identificaciones e implicancias), la relación con la crítica, las pertenencias culturales y raciales y su presunto rol legitimador, el vínculo entre un director y una esposa actriz.
Malcolm es un personaje extrovertido, narcisista y en parte resentido. Su personaje comienza muy “arriba” y roza lo insoportable y desde el vamos marca el contraste con la más introvertida Marie, quien se siente desplazada.
La estructura de la película podría resumirse como una serie de escaramuzas verbales a cargo de uno u otro con logrados momentos de silencio, con una virtuosa dirección de cámaras que busca que la esencia teatral de los diálogos se traduzca en términos cinematográficos.
Pero lamentablemente no estamos ante “Quién le teme a Virginia Woolf” ni mucho menos. Hay algo que no funciona (a pesar de las buenas actuaciones, sobre todo la de Zendaya) y que obstaculiza la conexión emocional (y también la intelectual) con los personajes: la falta de progresión dramática y la naturaleza demasiado analítica o cerebral de los diálogos y discusiones, que estallan casi desde el comienzo y con poco tiempo de incubación.
Por último, cabe destacar un aspecto metaficcional interesante: Levinson dirigió a Zendaya en la notable serie Euphoria, con un personaje parecido, pero en su adolescencia, de tal modo que Malcolm & Marie podría ser vista en este sentido casi como una secuela de Euphoria.
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[SPOILER ALERT: This review contains spoilers.]
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adjective, worse, worst;(Slang) bad·der, bad·dest for 36.
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It felt like after 40 mins the characters had nothing new to say and yet the movie lasted another hour. This was so badly written, rather than seeming like two people having a conversation it was just two people continually monologing towards each other. It seems like the writer of this film attempted to create smart characters and interesting dialogue while themselves being neither as intelligent or interesting as they think they are.
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Production Company
Little Lamb,
The Reasonable Bunch
Release Date Feb 5, 2021
Duration 1 h 46 m
Rating R
Tagline Madly in Love
Awards
Black Reel Awards
• 1 Win & 3 Nominations
ReFrame
• 2 Wins & 2 Nominations
Santa Barbara International Film Festival
• 1 Win & 1 Nomination