Certain Women (18:00)
Mar 3, 2017 13:38:20 GMT -5
Post by Deleted on Mar 3, 2017 13:38:20 GMT -5
Good evening to you all once again! I trust that all is well with all of you this weekend. Due to unprecedented demand from around the world, everyone reading 'The Third' is cordially invited to see Certain Women tonight with Kelly Reichardt.
Seen collectively through the prism of current events, Kelly Reichardt’s subtly political films form a prescient lament. Permeated by a fragile sense of ecological and emotional peril, the deceptively simple narratives can turn on a resonant gesture, an unspoken word or a singular look. The characters, many drawn from the stories of regular writing collaborator Jon Raymond, are America’s wild-eyed ramblers and flinty outsiders; everyday folk hobbled by loneliness, isolation and monotony. She maps landscapes – suburban Florida, the velvety forests and rocky plains of Oregon, small-town Montana – as living, breathing entities. Her wide-shots, and elongated pans create a vastness and a sense of distance between aspirations and reality, especially when framing her female characters.
BFI - Edge of America: The films of Kelly Reichardt
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"This LFF Best Film-winner is an impeccably quiet study of different Montana-based women. Laura Dern’s lawyer is conducting a surreptitious lunchtime affair with a married man. Michelle Williams is Gina, a woman of frustrated ambitions trying to build a ‘perfect’ family home with her husband and surly child. Native American actress Lily Gladstone plays lonely ranch-hand Jamie, who enrols in night school and develops feelings for supply teacher Beth (Kristen Stewart). The whole cast shines, particularly Gladstone – sublime as the near-silent young woman struggling to articulate the nature of her interest in Beth. Reichardt’s delicate direction ensures that the minutest look or gesture gains epic significance, and the only moment in the film to employ scored music might just break your heart."
Seen collectively through the prism of current events, Kelly Reichardt’s subtly political films form a prescient lament. Permeated by a fragile sense of ecological and emotional peril, the deceptively simple narratives can turn on a resonant gesture, an unspoken word or a singular look. The characters, many drawn from the stories of regular writing collaborator Jon Raymond, are America’s wild-eyed ramblers and flinty outsiders; everyday folk hobbled by loneliness, isolation and monotony. She maps landscapes – suburban Florida, the velvety forests and rocky plains of Oregon, small-town Montana – as living, breathing entities. Her wide-shots, and elongated pans create a vastness and a sense of distance between aspirations and reality, especially when framing her female characters.
BFI - Edge of America: The films of Kelly Reichardt
Join us!
