Certain Women (2016)
Screening as part of the 2025 From Page To Screen film festival
Introduced by festival curator Andrew Chater
Based on stories by Maile Meloy, director Kelly Reichardt (First Cow, Wendy and Lucy) sets her subtle triptych in Montana’s mountains and plains (poetically captured by cinematographer Christopher Blauvelt) – an empty, isolated landscape that reflects glimpses of loneliness and longing in the lives of four women.
Laura Dern is a lawyer whose calm professionalism masks a simmering resentment of the clients, colleagues and cops comprising her workload in small-town America. Michelle Williams is a high-achieving control freak focused on building a perfect rural retreat while her family is slipping away from her. But it’s the final strand, where Kristen Stewart’s harassed and exhausted night school teacher encounters pensive horse rancher Lily Gladstone (Oscar-nominated for Killers of the Flower Moon), that will stay with you the longest.
Dir. Kelly Reichardt, USA 2016, 107 mins. With Laura Dern, Kristen Stewart, Michelle Williams, Lily Gladstone, James Le Gros, Jared Harris.
Certificate 12A
Screening sponsored by New House Farm Bed and Breakfast, Bridport
Dates & Tickets
| Date | Time | Ticket |
|---|---|---|
| Thursday 24 April, 2025 | 2:00pm | Buy Tickets |
Reviews
Powerful, focused, nervy, lean. 'Certain Women' is a work of art produced by a director in full control of her material. It leaves you reeling.
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It’s [the] final segment, with its melancholy rhythms and lovely, textured performances from Stewart and Gladstone, that elevates the film into the unassuming masterpiece that it is… a minor miracle.