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My Little One

My Little One (Ayka)

2018

Sergei Dvortsevoy

Samal Yeslyamova, Zhipara Abdilaeva, Sergey Mazur, David Alaverdyan, Andrey Kolyadov

6.8

358

Drama A young Kyrgyz girl, Ayka, lives and works illegally in Moscow. After giving birth to her son she leaves him in hospital. Some time later, however, her motherly yearning leads her to desperate attempts of finding the abandoned child.

	Author	Review
United States	Leslie Felperin The Hollywood Reporter	"Pivoting around an intense, committed performance from Samal Yeslyamova (...) This almost feels like a remake of the Dardenne brothers' 'Rosetta'"	NEU
United Kingdom	Tim Grierson Screendaily	"Samal Yeslyamova gives an enormously reserved performance, but the film’s sombre relentlessness ultimately feels programmatic rather than organic."	NEU
United States	Barbara Scharres rogerebert.com	"An earnest but half-formed film (...) The film’s greatest flaw is in making everyone and everything around Ayka more interesting than she is"	NEG
Ireland	Donald Clarke Irish Times	"Samal Yeslyamova is utterly focussed (...) The picture is ruthless in its commitment to coolly exposing every aspect of Ayka’s descent (…) Rating: ★★★★ (out of 5)"	POS

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