2016 · drama
Certain Women
Directed by Kelly Reichardt1h 47m2016
Three strong-willed women strive to forge their own paths amidst the wide-open plains of the American Northwest: a lawyer forced to subdue a troubled client; a wife and mother whose plans to construct her dream home reveal fissures in her marriage; and a lonely ranch hand who forms an ambiguous bond with a young law student.
Our read: Certain Women (2016) reads as a sombre, slow-burn, grounded drama entry — gentle in intensity, intimate in scope, measured in temperature, nihilistic in outlook, with a strong directorial signature.
Sombre, slow-burn, gentle drama, grounded in texture. Nihilistic, intimate, measured.
- sombre
- slow-burn
- signature
- intimate
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“You want quiet Montana vignettes about women adrift, yearning, and barely connecting.”
Skip it tonight — Skip if minimalist Reichardt pacing and unresolved longing will leave you restless.
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