REVIEW: Latest collaboration between director Kelly Reichardt and star Michelle Williams explores the toil and trouble of creating art with grace and sly wit.
There’s also a hungry cat yowling at her, and a wounded pigeon she’s talked into birdsitting, and a day job at an art school. Plus some family issues, notably the fact that her brother has stopped taking his meds and is starting to spiral into dangerous, paranoid-delusions territory. For a movie about hard work, Reichardt’s po-faced Portland art-world farce pays a lot of attention to how hard it is to get any real work done.
Cowritten by Reichardt’s partner-in-scribe Jonathan Raymond,is designed to be an off-kilter showcase for Williams, who leans in to Lizzy’s short-fused temper, passive-aggressive tendencies, and dark-cloud outlook on life.
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