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I, Olga Hepnarova(Já, Olga Hepnarová)

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Czech Republic, Poland, France · 2016
1h 46m
Director Petr Kazda, Tomás Weinreb
Starring Michalina Olszańska, Martin Pechlát, Klára Melíšková, Marika Šoposká
Genre Drama, History

Olga is a complex young woman desperate to break free from her unfeeling family and social conventions. She drags herself, chain-smoking, from one job to another until she finds her niche as a truck driver. She clashes, time and again, venting herself in wordless emotional outbursts and other behavioral extremes.

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70

Village Voice by

A top performance for this year so far, Olszanksa's Olga is standoffish, frequently smoldering, rarely smiling, and she toes the line between intelligence and insanity.

80

CineVue by Ben Nicholson

All of the film is handled in such a way: from the beautiful monochrome photography that only extends the disconnection Olga feels with the world, to the understated and haunting performances, particularly Olszanska's.

63

Slant Magazine by Christopher Gray

The filmmakers take few measures to engender sympathy for Olga, but their prismatic take on her life, while novel, precludes making any resonant statements about homosexuality, emotional health, or humankind’s capacity for evil.

80

Empire by David Parkinson

Atmospheric and engrossing, this meticulous recreation of time and place acquires an unsettling contemporary relevance through its analysis of the mindset of a mass murderer with a death wish.

70

The New York Times by Glenn Kenny

Anchored by a startling performance by Michalina Olszanska, the Czech film “I, Olga Hepnarova” is an austere, hypnotic story of sadness, madness and murder.

63

RogerEbert.com by Godfrey Cheshire

Tomas Weinreb and Petr Kazda’s film, on the other hand, narrates a true-life crime but fails to provide an element that might’ve lifted it above tasteful art-house ordinariness—an engaging point of view.

60

Variety by Guy Lodge

Unforgivingly rigorous to its final, exactingly composed monochrome frame, I, Olga Hepnarova shows us scarcely a flickering moment of light or joy in its anti-heroine’s short, loveless life, depicted on screen from adolescence upwards.

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The Guardian by Leslie Felperin

Even if you go into this film knowing absolutely nothing about the true story on which it’s based...you’ll sense something dreadful is going to happen because so much of it is crushingly dull.

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