Muri da I like well made films and the introduction to this one, although slight dull seemed intriguing. However, it failed to ignite and like a car with a broken engine it needed a strong push, which it failed to receive. The scenarios throughout, touching on the subject of Pedophilia and the dangerous curious minds of lonely children were weak, this movie failed to make a proper statement in every area, it's like the writer had intention to create a meaningful scenario and then got way too stoned that they couldn't be bothered to follow through. This film was way too long and too much time was spent on the troubled female character who was recording and sent her work to an artist.I don't think this film was a realistic portrayal or an artistic one of any community, it truly was the same all the way through, with nothing groundbreaking taking place, it was all just ideas bundled together that never went anywhere, somewhere someone had intention but the paper plane just kept flying in circles.--------Not worth viewing if you actually care to watch thought- provoking artistic films ----- this film is the most pretentious i've seen recently

Olya Ivanova I really loved this film! All the way from the beginning it surprised me at every scene, it was very funny and did not try to overdo its humor, and the characters are unforgettable. To be honest, so many expressions and individual ideas that are conveyed in this movie through its characters, it's kind of hard to pin point what I loved most. It is a sexual film, probably not suitable for the young, but it portrays people as they are, something that we find awkward and strange in this movie - they all exist around us in real life and this film is not afraid to show it. Ultimately we all look for love. In this film, even the strange moments are romantic.

Framescourer A thin film bulked out with portentous, indie-sensibility design, music and open acting... I don't know the term I'm after, but it's that manner of acting which allows the audience to simply insert whatever they want to make of it. There's a fair bit of dead-pan staring, put it that way.It helps to pass the time of this otherwise pretty trying film that director Miranda July has hired John Hawkes as her leading man and that she herself is an attractive, sympathetic figure. The rest of the cast have their idiosyncrasies. But these are all amplified in substitution for character, relationships and narrative, just as the small episodes which make up the film are concentrated on in isolation to the detraction of the whole.I saw the film with a short introduction narrated by July herself. Her suggestion that a feature could be three of her half-hour shorts stuck together tells you much of what you need to know about this film before watching it. 3/10

ItsAlwaysSomething I know I'm probably in the vast minority, but I really didn't think this film was all that great.I understand that "MAYAEWK" was meant to be kind of a sociological study of how people relate (or, completely don't) to one another. Having said that, I don't think that alone can carry a full-length movie. A full length movie generally requires a plot to make it work; unfortunately, this movie doesn't have one.In fact, this film felt like a disjointed compilation of really corny student films where the actors make cryptic metaphors, perform nonsensical stunts, and say or do so-called shocking things merely to make the audience think, "Wow! This film is SO poignant and edgy!" Yawn.I found myself watching this movie waiting for the punchline or, at the very least, some kind of resolution to the characters' stories, but there weren't any. In the end, the shoe salesman and artist never go on their date, we never find out why the little girl keeps a dowry, we never find out why the man who left signs hides when the teenage girls go to his door, etc.To me, the reasons behind why the characters act the way they do is 1000% more interesting than merely presenting a superficial view of how they act. I felt kind of betrayed when I made it to the end of the movie and thought, "That was it? That was 'one of the year's best films' according to Roger Ebert?!" It was kind of like waiting in a line at an amusement park only to get to the end and realize that the line WAS the attraction; such a letdown.At best, the movie is mildly entertaining because of the weird things the characters do. The little boy's "poop back and forth" scene truly was priceless, but in the end, that doesn't save this plot-less pointless movie.D+