‘Agata the Writer’ Review: Mia Wasikowska Plays an Author Adrift and Short of Ideas, in a Sly, Witty Film With Plenty

‘Agata the Writer’ Review: Mia Wasikowska Plays an Author Adrift and Short of Ideas, in a Sly, Witty Film With Plenty

Mia Wasikowska is excellent as an Australian novelist adrift in Sarajevo in Kuba Dorabialski's sly, convention-swerving debut 'Agata the Writer.'

Agata the Writer | 2026 Venice Film Festival Review

The Blindness of Strangers: Dorabialski Stings the Storyteller “In the end, we’ll all become stories,” per Margaret Atwood, a sentiment which is ultimately at the metatextual heart of Agata the Writer, the sophomore narrative feature from Kuba Dorabialski. Born in Poland, Dorabialski seems to be drawing upon semi-autobiographical elements between himself and leading lady Mia Wasikowska, whose Australian-Polish roots dictate pertinent elements of…