At the mid-year mark, we put the spotlight on movies big (Spider-Man: Across The Spider Verse), small (Rye Lane), and in between (M3GAN).
is a quiet character study. In this case, filmmaker and actress have turned their attention to the understated life of Lizzy, a sculptor who is but a week away from having a gallery showing of her small figural pieces. Set in Oregon amid a small if bustling community centered around the city’s art school, Reichardt’s meditation on what it means to create and to live finds her yet again perfecting a cinema-as-short-story sensibility she’s been honing for years.
Here again is where Williams’ gift for conjuring up wholly ordinary people under Reichardt’s gaze should be rightfully celebrated. Her Lizzy moves through the world almost wanting to take up less space—as if she’d wanted to atomize her own self into her work. The final image may not offer too much closure but it does suggest an opening up. That it comes after close to two hours of a wayward, grounded journey where we really haven’t gone far may irk some viewers.
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