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Malia Obama's Sundance Movie Trashed by Reviewers: 'Giant Bomb'
Newsweak ^ | 2-21-24 | Ryan Smith

Posted on 02/21/2024 6:18:19 PM PST by dynachrome

Barack Obama's daughter, Malia Ann, has received some negative reviews over a debut short film that she both wrote and directed.

The 25-year-old showed her 18-minute film, The Heart, at the Sundance Film Festival. The film, which tells the story of a grieving son tasked with an unusual request from his late mother, previously screened at film festivals in Telluride and Chicago, where it received recognition in the best live action short category.

In a "Meet the Artist" video for Sundance, Malia Ann said that her project "is about lost objects and lonely people and forgiveness and regret." She added that it "works hard to uncover where tenderness and closeness can exist in these things."

"We hope that you enjoy the film and that it makes you feel a bit less lonely or at least reminds you not to forget about the people who are," added the former first daughter, who appears to have dropped the surname Obama from her professional sobriquet.

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To: Red Badger

Probably financed by Netflix I’d guess. But who knows? People with power and money can make a few phone calls and finance such a project on favors alone.


21 posted on 02/21/2024 6:47:55 PM PST by monkeyshine (live and let live is dead)
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To: dynachrome

The years have not been kind to her.
Definitely adopted, as was her ‘sister’.


22 posted on 02/21/2024 6:48:08 PM PST by Carriage Hill (A society grows great when old men plant trees, in whose shade they know they will never sit.)
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To: dynachrome

So we can be forced under President Harris to take public transportation or drive an EV to a theater to see a movie directed by Malia Obama sitting there with tofu and cricket powder snacks and almond milk to get our social credit points ticket and come home to see our roomful of art print reproductions of the paintings of Hunter Biden. Sweating with no air conditioning allowed and hoping the four illegal aliens staying with us downstairs aren’t going to murder us overnight.
And they try to convince me this isn’t Hell.


23 posted on 02/21/2024 6:48:27 PM PST by frank ballenger (There's a battle outside and it's raging. It'll soon shake your windowdirecs and rattle your walls.)
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To: dynachrome

I would imagine the feature film would be titled “Sasquatch: A story of lost objects, lonely creatures, forgiveness, and regret.”


24 posted on 02/21/2024 6:50:24 PM PST by oldguy21
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To: JennysCool

I give a point for not using the famous last name, but everyone will know anyway.


25 posted on 02/21/2024 6:52:10 PM PST by dynachrome (War does not determine who is right, but who is left.)
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To: dynachrome

it seems she is trying to make a name of her own which is a good thing, although obviously she wouldn’t be shown at Sundance without connections. very glad she isn’t out at Soros demonstrations and am loathe to pile on.


26 posted on 02/21/2024 6:52:16 PM PST by avital2 ("n)
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To: dynachrome

I’m sure many of the “art collectors” who bought Hunter’s paintings would pay her millions to produce private movies for them. Since Barry is still in charge, it would be a much better investment for them.


27 posted on 02/21/2024 6:52:56 PM PST by hardspunned (Former DC GOP globalist stooge)
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To: Vigilanteman

Well you judge a short film on various techniques - cinematography, acting, writing, themes, dialogue, editing and whether it engages or moves you in some way (emotional, entertaining, educational etc). I’m not judging since I didn’t see it but my first thought was what does a 25 year old ivy league educated former first daughter know about loneliness, loss and regret? She might be a very empathetic person - many great artists are.

Anyway you gotta start somewhere and you gotta fail along the way to learn the skills to get better. Getting panned, she might have learned something about loss and regret.


28 posted on 02/21/2024 6:57:17 PM PST by monkeyshine (live and let live is dead)
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To: FamiliarFace
"At least she isn’t known for doing drugs as a stepping stone to her 'talent.'”

From 2016:

Obama ‘furious’ at Malia for appearing to smoke pot

I'm sure she told her surrogate father she wouldn't do it anymore. 🤥

29 posted on 02/21/2024 7:01:25 PM PST by mass55th (“Courage is being scared to death, but saddling up anyway.” ― John Wayne)
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To: All

There are (allegedly) photos of Malania in bed with Hunter.

There are also photos of her supposed real parents on the interwebz.


30 posted on 02/21/2024 7:01:45 PM PST by TigerClaws
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To: dynachrome

Will she win a Nobel Prize for doing nothing?


31 posted on 02/21/2024 7:03:28 PM PST by mfish13 (Elections have Consequences.)
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To: dynachrome

Are they screaming “Racism” yet?


32 posted on 02/21/2024 7:06:20 PM PST by Bob434
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To: ClearCase_guy

Big Mike: She not ours anyway, just a rent-a-kid. Blame her real parents for this bomb.


33 posted on 02/21/2024 7:23:07 PM PST by twister881
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To: dynachrome
The sins of the mother and the father should not be visited upon Sasquatch and Malaria. I'd have to see the flick before making any judgement. But.... how many other 25-year old filmmakers - and I'll bet there are dozens crowding the film schools - get their first offering screened at Sundance?! None who are not named obama.
34 posted on 02/21/2024 7:27:04 PM PST by Rummyfan (In any war between the civilized man and the savage, support the civilized man.)
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To: dynachrome

She’ll get famous celebrities to back her films. As long as her father returns the favor.


35 posted on 02/21/2024 7:27:52 PM PST by MinorityRepublican
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To: leaning conservative
I get that you’re not a fan. She’s not problematic and yes being an Obama has given her, like other nepo babies, a huge advantage. To say she is a, “slightly better version” of Hunter Biden is delusional on your part. She is nothing like him. You can not like her all you want, but don’t make up a bald faced lie about her.

Well said. Why people transfer their hate of a public person over to that person's children, I'll never understand.

36 posted on 02/21/2024 7:30:16 PM PST by fidelis (Ecce Crucem Domini! Fugite partes adversae! Vicit Leo de tribu Juda, Radix David! Alleluia!)
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To: dynachrome

… in a dress she made.


37 posted on 02/21/2024 8:00:42 PM PST by HIDEK6 (God bless Donald Trump. )
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To: FamiliarFace

They are a conduit for bribe money.


38 posted on 02/21/2024 8:01:36 PM PST by HIDEK6 (God bless Donald Trump. )
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To: dynachrome

Given who she is, and the way liberals worship their masters, you have to wonder if anyone, anywhere, has ever been honest with her.


39 posted on 02/21/2024 8:03:28 PM PST by simpson96
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To: leaning conservative

Wow. I think you misread my comment just a tad.

I was merely suggesting that some people (like famous children) get lots of advantages that others struggling in the same career paths don’t.

I know a couple of very talented yet nearly starving artists who have worked years at their crafts, and don’t get the breaks of Sundance film festivals or private buyers like either Malia Obama or Hunter Biden.

Sorry to offend you.

I don’t freaking hate the girl. If she works for what she wants, all good with me. And she is better than that drug addict, Hunter Biden, no doubt.


40 posted on 02/21/2024 8:03:59 PM PST by FamiliarFace (I got my own way of livin' But everything gets done With a southern accent Where I come from. TPetty)
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