"Kelly Reichardt has been called one of America's greatest filmmakers, and also one of its quietest. But her latest, The Mastermind, centered on an art heist that goes off the rails, is probably her loudest movie yet and definitely her biggest budget to date."
"Reichardt even set out to make something different from her previous work - which includes First Cow, Showing Up, and Wendy and Lucy - only to get back to the editing room and realize, "Oh, there it is. Another one of these films.""
"For Mooney, stealing the artworks isn't the hard part; it's the holding onto them that becomes the problem."
"Reichardt describes The Mastermind as an "unraveling" - an "anti-heist" film, and she faced specific filmmaking challenges including budget constraints, expensive car and night scenes, and building her first-ever set."
Kelly Reichardt's The Mastermind is a larger-scale, louder return that centers on a bungled art theft and a protagonist who charms his way through failure. Josh O'Connor stars as J.B. Mooney, a dimly lit thief from a privileged background whose main problem is holding onto stolen Arthur Dove paintings after a thrown-together heist. The film opens with a satisfying theft based on a 1972 Worcester Art Museum robbery, then tracks Mooney's unraveling rather than triumphant escape. Production demanded a bigger budget for car sequences, night shoots, and Reichardt's first built set while she resisted labeling the film a conventional heist.
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