Maya Dardel

2017 film

Lena Olin
Jordan Gavaris
Alexander Koch
Nathan Keyes
Rosanna Arquette

CinematographyPatrick ScolaEdited byOsman BayraktarogluMusic byZachary Cotler

Production
companies

The Winter Film Company
Greyshack Films
Message Film

Distributed bySamuel Goldwyn Films
Orion Pictures

Release dates

March 12, 2017 (2017-03-12) (South by Southwest)
October 27, 2017 (2017-10-27) (United States)

Running time

104 minutesCountriesUS, PolandLanguageEnglish

Maya Dardel is a 2017 American-Polish drama film written and directed by Zachary Cotler and Magdalena Zyzak, starring Lena Olin, Jordan Gavaris, Alexander Koch, Nathan Keyes, and Rosanna Arquette.^[1]

It premiered in the Narrative Competition at the 2017 South by Southwest Film Festival and was acquired by Samuel Goldwyn Films and Orion Pictures.^[2]

Plot

The film portrays the final weeks leading to the ambiguous disappearance of Maya Dardel, an internationally respected poet and novelist of Scandinavian origins, who has been living as a recluse for decades high up in the Santa Cruz Mountains of California. Maya announces on National Public Radio that she intends to end her life and that young male writers may compete to become executor of her estate. Men drive up the mountain and are challenged intellectually, emotionally, and erotically, until one of them begins to fathom Maya's end game.^[3]