From MiuMiu to MadelinesMadeline, cats are always a teen girl’s spirit animal
atmosphere – summarised the antithetical characteristics that the creatures possess the best. Cute, but psycho., director Josephine Decker felt the cat was Madeline’s spirit animal without a doubt. Detailing a summer in the life of a teenage actress, and her relationships with her mother and manipulative theatre director Evangeline , the film is about frustrated female family dynamics, mental illness, but also a prolonged coming-of-age moment.
Madeline, like a cat, can be manipulative, mischievous, loving, wild, and, finally, unreachable. Her character, suffering from erratic moods, struggles to pin down the right personality for the right momentIn one scene, where she goes to a barbecue at Evangeline’s house, her spontaneous one woman cat-play for the family group both magnetises and repels; as an audience member, you feel tense, wondering what will happen next .
in another interview. “They just felt like Madeline’s hero animals so deeply, they’re just like her.” Madeline’s refusal of the rules, her feline lawlessness, is ultimately her power.Decker coyly nods at the connection between cats and teen girl sensuality/sexuality in a way that other directors put centre stage.
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