Kelly Reichardt's new film Certain Women follows the stories of three different women as they struggle to blaze their own trails within their respective worlds.
The film is riddled with understated beauty from the direction to the cinematography to the performances. My favorite storyline follows Laura Dern as a lawyer struggling to get an emotionally unstable client (Jared Harris) the justice he may or may not deserve. Kristen Stewart, Michelle Williams, and Lily Gladstone all give magnificent performances as well.
I've written about a couple of other Sundance films being a bit too deliberately paced, but Certain Women takes the cake as the slowest of the bunch. Watching that in a pitch-dark room on three hours of sleep... you do the math.
For that reason, I need to see it again before bestowing a final letter grade. What I managed to catch, however, was visually beautiful and emotionally rich. Certain Women could well be Reichardt's masterpiece. See it.
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