Madly
- Director: Various
- Writer: Various
- Producer: Jeanne Applegate; Nusrat Durrani
CGiii Comment
Madly explores love in all its permutations in six short films from a vibrant group of filmmakers representing Japan, Argentina, the UK, the US, India, and Australia. All forms of love are on display in this anthology. And all manners of feelings expressed from jubilance to depression are done so strongly. In Afterbirth, actress Mia Wasikowska goes behind the camera to tell the story of a young mother’s postpartum struggles; Gael García Bernal explores how pregnancy affects one couple’s already ambivalent relationship in Love of My Life; and ghosts of past relationships are resurrected in Natasha Khan’s I Do. These stories of love never shy away from taboo either: Sion Sono’s Love of Love delves into underground sex clubs in Japan, and Anurag Kashyap’s Clean Shaven uncovers the social relevance of a woman’s pubic hair. Love can even be delightfully irreverent at moments, Dance Dance Dance from Sebastian Silva features an eye-roll from Jesus. Madly, after all, is a contemporary portrait of love in all its glorious, sad, ecstatic, empowering, and erotic manifestations.
—Genna Terranova
Trailer...
MADLY (2016) · trailer from Rei Cine on Vimeo.
Cast & Characters
Radhika Apte as Archana;
Kathryn Beck as Woman;
Tamsin Topolski as Bride;
Satyadeep Misra as Sudhir;
Yuki Sakurai as Sayaka - Older Sister;
Justina Bustos as Her;
Ami Tomite as Mio - Younger Sister;
Mariko Tsutsui as Eiko - Mother;
Taro Suwa as Masahito - Father;
Adarsh Gourav as Allwyn;
Pablo Seijo as Him;
Lex Santos as Rio