My First Film

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My First Film

R

2024

1h 40m

Drama

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Nearly 15 years later, Vita (Odessa Young), recounts making her first feature -- a semi-autobiographical film about a young woman who gets pregnant and decides to leave home. Being an enthusiastic but inexperienced filmmaker the shoot is chaotic, and her ego-tripping methods destroy the production. As her "first film" falls apart, director Zia Anger stages a lyrical auto-critique that probes the nature of artistic truth and personal mythmaking.

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Richard Brody

The New Yorker

09/17/2024

Moments that defy representation and that Anger nonetheless put onscreen with an originality and an audacity that are as personal as the events that they bring to life, as revolutionary as the times demand...

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Sheila O'Malley

RogerEbert.com

09/06/2024

4/4

It’s rare to “meet” a new artist whose work is so personal it feels like a fingerprint.

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Alissa Wilkinson

New York Times

09/05/2024

I don’t know which parts of Vita’s life are drawn directly from Anger’s and which are her invention, but it doesn’t really matter — this is deeply personal work, and it shows.

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Anna Hoang

Boston Hassle

Jul 13

3.5/5

Unfinished projects and our presentation towards others might have been Anger’s cruces, but in making a movie like MY FIRST FILM, this year’s certain onion-oddity, honesty feels like karmic goodness.

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Tina Kakadelis

Beyond the Cinerama Dome

12/20/2024

My First Film is an ode to the messiness of creation, the bonds forged during marathon shoots, and the end product, abandoned or lauded.

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CJ Sheu

The News Lens International

10/31/2024

Anger’s coming of age isn’t about arriving at the answers, but about knowing how to ask the questions.

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Tom F

@RT55173143 Jan 3

A delightfully constructed mess that works, mostly.

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Dominique F

@RT59889608 09/14/2024

Intimate and thought-provoking.

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Nexus S

@RT47302075 09/13/2024

UNWATCHABLE and pretentious. This movie seems like a school project, and is a waste of time. INDIE movies sometimes are bad, but this is a disaster.

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Jamelia S

@RT12389456 09/11/2024

Not for regular people. Almost unwatchable.

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Synopsis

Nearly 15 years later, Vita (Odessa Young), recounts making her first feature -- a semi-autobiographical film about a young woman who gets pregnant and decides to leave home. Being an enthusiastic but inexperienced filmmaker the shoot is chaotic, and her ego-tripping methods destroy the production. As her "first film" falls apart, director Zia Anger stages a lyrical auto-critique that probes the nature of artistic truth and personal mythmaking.

Director: Zia Anger
Producer: Taylor Shung, Riel Roch-Decter
Screenwriter: Zia Anger, Billy Feldman
Distributor: MUBI
Production Co: MUBI, Memory
Rating: R
Genre: Drama
Original Language: English
Release Date (Theaters): Aug 30, 2024, Limited
Release Date (Streaming): Sep 6, 2024
Runtime: 1h 40m

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