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The Rehearsal
A young student at a drama school faces a moral conundrum when his budding romance becomes fodder for a final-year performance, in director Alison Maclean’s (Jesus’ Son) adaptation of the novel by Booker Prize–winning author Eleanor Catton.
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27 May 1964, Wellington, New Zealand
20 October 1971, Auckland, New Zealand
30 July 1966, Wellington, New Zealand
1970
July 21, 2017
It is a film that will leave people talking, I have no doubt. Hopefully one of those discussions is about why it took Alison Maclean so long to make another film. 18 years is too long to wait.
July 10, 2017
Mildly engaging and intriguing with a solid performance by the charismatic, underrated Kerry Fox.
July 06, 2017
Such a hodgepodge of arthouse references, arch distancing effects, and emotionally vacant wide-screen compositions that one could easily mistake it for an awkward debut film.
June 29, 2017
Filmed in New Zealand with a Kiwi director and performers, this "Rehearsal" is "Fame" without the Hollywood glitz.
October 16, 2017
The film is enlivened by an uncommon depiction of young people behaving and interacting in a believable manner, and confidently builds to a (literal) showstopper ending that's both rousing and hard-won.
July 06, 2017
This affecting story of one lad's personal and artistic growth is one of the very best acting-school films.
July 07, 2017
Feels like a handful of sketches in need of more connection.
July 11, 2017
The diffuse nature of the narrative, the way in which the film sometimes seems reluctant to focus, makes it something other than the simpler, more direct, more obvious movie that it might have been-a spectacle of the pedagogic urge to destroy.
September 12, 2016
"The Rehearsal" can't help but follow its characters as their actions become more irrational and occasionally overwrought, but like them it's redeemed by a simple yet bravura closing sequence
July 06, 2017
Your mileage may vary, but for myself "The Rehearsal" delivers a good hour and a half of engagement and intrigue only to top it off with a cherry that left me asking "Really?"
July 07, 2017
A sensitive, thoughtful, often provocative movie that nevertheless feels like a missed opportunity.
July 06, 2017
Maclean asks tough questions about the craft of acting and the behavior of administrators who would rather collect donor checks for new facilities than do the right thing for their students.