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A Woman, a Part
An exhausted, workaholic actress, Anna Baskin, 44, abruptly extricates herself from a successful but mind-numbing TV role, returning to her past life in New York to reinvent herself.
19 October 1967, Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania, USA
4 September 1957, New York City, New York, USA
1966, Budapest, Hungary
15 January 1987, Warwick, Rhode Island, USA
21 June 1974, Bronx, New York City, New York, USA
14 November 1986, Los Angeles, California, USA
23 May 1968, Brooklyn, New York City, New York, USA
17 July 1976, Kielce, Swietokrzyskie, Poland
March 19, 2017
The film's depiction of friendship seldom pushes past insights predicated on a fundamental tension between characters.March 20, 2017
For her feature debut, Subrin forsakes the experimentalism of her short films and video installations for a relatively conventional narrative and storytelling grammar. No matter: A Woman, A Part is compelling all the same.March 17, 2017
Portrait of one woman's resilience as she moves through a difficult mid-life crisis.March 21, 2017
Touching on issues of artistic survival and the porous boundary between work and pleasure, Ms. Subrin, an accomplished visual artist and filmmaker, sifts addiction, celebrity and the plight of the aging actress into something rarefied yet real.March 20, 2017
The feature debut from award-winning short film director Elisabeth Subrin is a rewarding, if occasionally solipsistic, study of a complex, mature woman at a crossroads in her life.March 28, 2017
"A Woman, a Part" knows how to hold an audience, and it's got a fresh, if commercially limited, subject: What happens when hipsters get old.March 20, 2017
It's chiefly notable for Cara Seymour's nuanced supporting turn as Anna's sometime best friend, Kate.March 24, 2017
A Woman, A Part is excellent storytelling from start to finish and I can't wait to see what story Subrin tells next.March 22, 2017
A Woman, a Part mixes passion and ambivalence to create a work with ambiguities that seem earned, and lived in.March 22, 2017
Siff gives a modest but poignant performance that rings true for women of a certain age and career.