Independent Cinema for Everyone

Kelly Reichardt delivers an impeccably quiet study of the lives of four Montana women. Dern’s lawyer is conducting a surreptitious lunchtime affair with a married man while defending a disgruntled construction worker in a workplace accident suit. Williams is Gina, a woman of frustrated ambitions attempting to build a ‘perfect’ family, but struggling with her own slippery ethics as she tries to get things done in the sleepy town. And Native American actor Lily Gladstone plays lonely ranch hand Jamie, who enrols in a night school course and develops confusing feelings for supply teacher (Stewart). It’s all-round stellar work from an impeccable cast, with newcomer Gladstone sublime as the near-silent figure struggling to articulate the nature of her interest in Beth. Reichardt’s delicate, nuanced direction ensures that the minutest look or gesture gains epic significance and the only moment in the film to employ scored music is so overwhelming it might just break your heart.
Dir. Kelly Reichardt, US, 2016, 107 mins.
Cast. Laura Dern, Michelle Williams, Kristen Stewart, Lily Gladstone.

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