"The filmmaker behind films like " Old Joy," " Wendy and Lucy," " Meek's Cutoff," " Night Moves," " First Cow," and " Showing Up," she's more than cemented her status as an icon of indie cinema. However, her latest shows she's not only still challenging herself, leaving behind the Pacific Northwest where she's made much of her work, but continuing to cut deep into"
"A deeply flawed family man who doesn't seem to actually want to be living this life, when we first meet him, he's using them as cover to case a local art museum that he'll soon attempt to rob. It's the 1970s, and his quiet corner of Massachusetts is both somewhat removed from yet also deeply a part of the protests against the catastrophe of the Vietnam War."
Kelly Reichardt has cemented her status as an indie cinema icon with films including Old Joy, Wendy and Lucy, Meek's Cutoff, Night Moves, First Cow, and Showing Up. The Mastermind (in theaters October 17) centers on Josh O'Connor's James Blaine Mooney, a deeply flawed family man who uses his family as cover while planning an art museum robbery. The film is set in 1970s Massachusetts amid Vietnam War protests and frames a personal fixation against national turmoil. The Mastermind premiered at the Cannes Film Festival, reunites Reichardt with collaborators such as John Magaro and cinematographer Christopher Blauvet, and expands her geographic and thematic reach beyond the Pacific Northwest.
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