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Actress

2014

Documentary, Self: Brandy Burre

Documentary When Brandy decides to reclaim her life as an actor, the domestic world she's carefully created crumbles around her. "Actress" is both a present tense portrait of a dying relationship and an exploration of a complicated woman, performing the role of herself as she faces the desires that exist outside of her home.

	Media	Author	Review
		A. O. Scott The New York Times	"Greene’s impressionistic style and rough, off-center compositions create an atmosphere of intimacy, as if the viewer were being invited to read Ms. Burre’s diary or her mind"
		Ignatiy Vishnevetsky AV Club	"[A] smart, sensitive documentary (...) [It] turns the chores and frustrations of a modern-day homemaker into a study in roles—social and personal, conscious and unintentional, on-camera and off"
		Guy Lodge Variety	"Few films, however, have presented the notion of self-performance as perceptively or provocatively as Robert Greene’s extraordinary 'Actress'"
		Eric Kohn IndieWire	"It’s a story with universal appeal rendered in intimate flourishes. Precisely because of [Burre] constant prevarications and slip-ups, she provides the movie with its emotional anchor."
		Christy Lemire rogerebert.com	"'Actress' is more effective at revealing how Burre is torn between motherhood and stardom, and how she refuses to be defined exclusively by either (…) Rating: ★★★ (out of 4)"

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