Certain Women

‘Certain Women’ burns slow, but it leaves behind a mysterious, shimmering aura.

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Certain Women

One of America’s foremost filmmakers, Kelly Reichardt (Wendy and Lucy, Meek’s Cutoff) directs a remarkable ensemble cast led by Michelle Williams, Kristen Stewart, and Laura Dern in this stirring look at three women striving to forge their own paths amidst the wide-open plains of the American Northwest: a lawyer (Dern) who finds herself contending with both office sexism and a hostage situation; a wife and mother (Williams) whose determination to build her dream home puts her at odds with the men in her life; and a young law student (Stewart) who forms an ambiguous bond with a lonely ranch hand (radiant newcomer Lily Gladstone). As their stories intersect in subtle but powerful ways, a portrait emerges of flawed, but strong-willed individuals in the process of defining themselves.
R
Genre
Drama
Runtime
107
Language
English
Director
Kelly Reichardt
Writer(s)
Maile Meloy, Kelly Reichardt
Cast
Kristen Stewart, Michelle Williams, Laura Dern, Jared Harris
FEATURED REVIEW
Dana Stevens, Slate

“It would be so lovely,” muses the lawyer played by Laura Dern in Kelly Reichardt’s Certain Women, “to think that if I were a man, I could explain the law and people would listen … that would be so restful.” In this subdued and allusive film, that’s the closest any character comes to making a ...

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