Anna, a 44-year-old, exhausted, workaholic actress, abruptly extricates herself from her successful but soul-draining TV career and returns to her past life in New York in order to reinvent herself. This intimate story of her journey and those of friends, Isaac and Kate, become magnified by the film's surrounding themes: gentrification, addiction, burnout, and industry sexism.
 A Woman, A Part Written & Directed by Elisabeth Subrin
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ABOUT THE FILM

Durga is gratified to support a seasoned female artist such as Elisabeth Subrin, whose award-winning work has consistently proven to be singular and direct. With its notable cast of Maggie Siff, Cara Seymour, Khandi Alexander & John Ortiz, Durga Entertainment is pleased to support a movie that explores the identities of artists and women in a way that is exceptional and rare.

NR | 1 hour 37 Minutes | USA | Drama

Poster for A Woman, A Part film

ABOUT THE FILM

Durga is gratified to support a seasoned female artist such as Elisabeth Subrin, whose award-winning work has consistently proven to be singular and direct. With its notable cast of Maggie Siff, Cara Seymour, Khandi Alexander & John Ortiz, Durga Entertainment is pleased to support a movie that explores the identities of artists and women in a way that is exceptional and rare.

NR | 1 hour 37 Minutes | USA | Drama

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CAST

  • Maggie Siff

    as Anna

  • Cara Seymour

    as Kate

  • Khandi Alexander

    as Leslie

  • John Ortiz

    as Isaac

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REVIEWS

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.. Elisabeth Subrin’s A Woman, A Part, a psychological study of just how contradictory and terrifying it can be to pretend, as a matter of professional duty, to be someone else.

The New York TimesA.O. Scott
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...Subrin cites Susan Sontag: ‘to be a woman is to be an actress.’ We’re all performing gender roles, but ‘the burden of appearance… is something men don’t deal with as much.’ The line between acting and being is much more complicated for women.

IFFR
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A Woman, A Part’s refreshing departures from the norm are found less in the film’s form, which remains rather conventional, and more in its treatment of human subjects… to push back against hackneyed character types and insist on the need to represent diverse people and experiences on screen.

Art Forum
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Subrin is an empathetic filmmaker with an obvious respect for actors, both as collaborators and as subjects.

Screen DailyWendy Ide
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“Occasionally, you see a low-budget indie drama that strikes the perfect balance… Elisabeth Subrin, the writer-director of A Woman, a Part (her first feature), hits that kind of balance.

VarietyOwen Gleiberman
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Elisabeth Subrin's A Woman, A Part takes on the industry with grace, insight and some big ideas.

IndieWireKate Erbland
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The Female Creative Utopia of A Woman, A Part.

NEW YORK MagazineAnna Silman
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At BAMcinemaFest, Provocative Films With a Female Perspective.

The Wall Street JournalSteve Dollar
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Maggie Siff on Her Feminist Film About Actresses.

W MagazineVanessa Lawrence