The Forty-Year-Old Version

"Find your own voice."

2020 2h 3m EN

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6.7

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★6.7TMDB · 118

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Desperate for a breakthrough as she nears the big 4-0, struggling New York City playwright Radha finds inspiration by reinventing herself as a rapper.

“Find your own voice.”

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Cast

Radha Blank
Radha
Peter Y. Kim
Archie
Oswin Benjamin
D
Reed Birney
J. Whitman
Imani Lewis
Elaine
T.J. Atoms
Kamal
Welker White
Julie
Jacob Ming-Trent
Lamont

Credits

Behind the camera

Director: Radha Blank
Writers: Radha Blank
Languages: English
Countries: United States of America

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Released 6 years ago.

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DIRECTOR

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Directed by Radha Blank, shot by Eric Branco. Note their partnership — DPs and directors often return to each other across a career.

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DIRECTOR

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Editor Robert Grigsby Wilson shaped the rhythm. On an edit-heavy film, the editor does more to control your pulse than the director.

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CAST

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Radha Blank and Peter Y. Kim and Oswin Benjamin carry the top of the cast.

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FACT

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Marketing tagline: "Find your own voice.".

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IMDB entry: tt10642834 — still the authoritative cross-reference for credits and trivia.

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The take

Radha Blank directs. Eric Branco behind the camera. Robert Grigsby Wilson cuts. Produced in United States of America. Dialogue in English.

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1Released 6 years ago.
2Directed by Radha Blank, shot by Eric Branco. Note their partnership — DPs and directors often return to each other across a career.
3Editor Robert Grigsby Wilson shaped the rhythm. On an edit-heavy film, the editor does more to control your pulse than the director.
4Radha Blank and Peter Y. Kim and Oswin Benjamin carry the top of the cast.
5Marketing tagline: "Find your own voice.".
6IMDB entry: tt10642834 — still the authoritative cross-reference for credits and trivia.

The technical file

Cinematography: Eric Branco
Editing: Robert Grigsby Wilson
Production design: Valeria De Felice
Costume design: Sarah Williams
Makeup / hair: Anita Gibson
VFX supervisor: Alex Noble
Sound: Gregg Swiatlowski
Runtime: 123 min · 2h 3m
Aspect ratio (typical): 1.37:1 (Academy)
Status: Released
Original language: EN
Certification (US): R
IMDB: The Forty-Year-Old Version (2020)

Awards

Sundance U.S. Directing Award: Dramatic

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CinemaSerf2023-08-31
★ 6/10
Radka is a playwright who has somewhat fallen from grace since her first success and as she approaches 40 is having a sort of mid-life crisis - what is she about? What's it all for? How can she become fulfilled? Well - indefatigable, she goes about setting herself up as a rapper and it becomes quite clear to "D" - the young base track layer that she has some skill at it. He even presuades her to do a live gig so perhaps her rather hum-drum, routine, existence might be about to change for the better... ? Well, simultaneously her agent "Archie" (Peter Kim) is trying to get the rather seedy, gay casting-couch merchant "J Whitman" (Reed Birney) to produce her play and the film juggles her rapping and writing aspirations set against her day-job teaching a disparate bunch of students with attitude and talent - but both need to be controlled! At it's best, this is great - the rapping is potent and poetic; the comedy can be funny - if somewhat predictable; and she is an engaging and likeable character. It is, however, far too long and auteur Blank struggles to maintain the pace and focus of the film for much of what just turns out to be a fairly ordinary tale of a single woman trying to recalibrate. I enjoyed it, but it really could have been doing with a more objective hand at the helm.

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