Showing Up

Kelly Reichardt, (2022, DCP)
Films at the Whitney

Nominated for a Palme d’Or at the 2022 Cannes Film Festival, Kelly Reichardt’s vibrant and funny portrait of a sculptor’s daily work and struggles in an artists’ enclave in Portland stars Michelle Williams and Hong Chau. The film follows Lizzy (Williams), an experienced female artist and part-time administrative worker who’s trying to establish her place in the professional art world while tending to the emotional well-being of her increasingly fragmented family and dealing with the neglect of her well-meaning landlord (Chau)—a successful conceptual artist in her own right. See the film that New Yorker film critic Richard Brody calls “a quiet, candid, sharply conceived and imaginatively realized masterwork.”