2016 Certain Women



(2016) Certain Women


2017

A Criterion Collection | Oct 2017 | Film Info | Announcement | Tweet

‘Certain Women,’ ‘The Piano Teacher,’ and More Join The Criterion Collection in September by Jordan Raup by The film Stage | Tweet | 20170616
With unassuming craft, Reichardt captures the rhythms of daily life in small-town Montana through these fine-grained portraits of women trapped within the landscape’s wide-open spaces.
Why 'Certain Women' is vital filmmaking that helps us understand America Today
By Zack Sharf, Indiewire | 20170711
“Certain Women” tells three short stories set across Montana that all speak to larger issues of the marginalization of women. Dern plays a lawyer caught in the middle of a hostage situation. Williams plays a wife and mother who attempts to bargain for a piece of sandstone. Stewart plays a young teacher who strikes up a friendship with a lonely ranch, played with unforgettable restraint by Gladstone. The newcomer earned rave reviews across the board, and her and Stewart’s chemistry elevates “Certain Women” tenfold in its final third.
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Elle; Certain Women; Neruda; Frantz and more – reviews by Guy Lodge, The Guardian | Tweet | 20170907
The particularity of a woman’s identity is also central to – embedded, indeed, right in the title of – Certain Women (Sony, 12), a beautiful, breeze-ruffled midwestern triptych from Kelly Reichardt, American cinema’s reigning master of the miniature. Three ostensibly unrelated stories of feminine resolve in a dour man’s world gradually illuminate one another in Reichardt’s most elegantly cross-stitched film to date. There are quiet rewards in the chapters anchored by Laura Dern’s small-time lawyer and Michelle Williams’s legacy-seeking wife and mother, but it’s the sublime third chapter that lifts the film to the heavens: a piercing maybe-romance between Kristen Stewart’s gangly law student and a lonesome Native American rancher (the marvellous Lily Gladstone) aching for a moment’s understanding. Reichardt, if no one else, grants her wish.
11 Best Films of 2017... So Far by Louis Chilton, The 730 Review | 20170701
Kelly Reichardt, one of America’s best independent directors, adapted three short stories by Maile Maloy to form Certain Women, a wonderful, subtle work of feminism and humanism. With stellar performances from Laura Dern, Kristen Stewart, Michelle Williams, Lily Gladstone and Mad Men’s Jared Harris, Certain Women is unconventionally slow, but uniquely beautiful. Reichardt paints America as its true self, a profoundly conflicted country where women still struggle for equality, where the promises of the American Dream too often prove false. Certain Women is a masterpiece of independent cinema.
★★★★☆ Review: Certain Women embraces Kelly Reichardt’s unspoken truths by Kate Taylor, The Globe and Mail | 20170519
Stewart does an intriguing job creating a paradoxical character who explains herself without giving of herself, her very persona exposing the false promise of personal exposition.

★★★★★ Certain Women review: Kelly Reichardt fashions a minor miracle by Wendy Ide, The Guardian | 20170205
It’s this 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.
★★★★★ Certain Women Review by Lix Beardsworth, EmpireOnline | 20170303
A rich, gently humorous character study luxuriating in the minutiae of these women’s outwardly small-scale lives.
★★★☆☆ Certain Women is a solemn tale of under-appreciated women in small-town America by Harry Readhead, Metro | 20170303
This arc, which owes a lot to an exhausted-looking and self-deprecating but nevertheless magnetic Kristen Stewart, is brimming with unspoken tension, and is the film’s best vignette.
★★★★☆ Certain Women is a chilly, gentle portrait of female characters on the edge - review
By Tim Robey, Telegraph | 20170302

★★★★☆ Certain Women review - quietly mysterious tale of lives on the edge by Peter Bradshaw, The Guardian | 20170302
Michelle Williams, Laura Dern and Kristen Stewart are utterly engaging in Kelly Reichardt’s heartfelt study of three women in small-town Montana
Certain Women by David Jenkins, Little White Lies | 20170301
Kristen Stewart’s wayfaring supply teacher has to erotically scarf down a plate of diner food prior to an all-night drive across the state. There is, obviously, something cinematically seductive about the idea of Stewart chewing on a burger, and Reichardt knows it.

2016

With rugged feminist piece 'Certain Women,' Kelly Reichardt shows why she's the last indie purist (for now) by Steven Zeitchik, LA Times | 20161021
Stewart said Reichardt’s love of detail and process carries over to actors too. "Kelly is the very rare director who, when she tells you to do the chore in a scene, she actually wants you to do the chore," Stewart said. "It's not, ‘Just make it look like the chore.’”

"Did she say that?" Stewart replied, when told of Reichardt's resolution. "That's bull.… I don't think she'll do that. She's an artist. Artists are compulsive. They can't take the easy path.”
How Kristen Stewart, Michelle Williams, and a Broken Truck Came Together for the Remarkable Certain Women by Bruce Handy, VanityFair | 20161017
They started doing the scene, and Kristen just turned to me, and said, “Lily is really good today.” And I think they each took each other to [a different level]. Kristen, in life, her leg shakes. She’s a fast talker. To see how a scene starts and her metabolism suddenly seems different—I don’t know how you perform that. The question [in pre-production] was always, “Is Kristen too big for this role? And will that be distracting?” And I was blown away by her. I just thought she was so generous to Lily [in that scene]. She had no problem being the quiet receiver of something, and making herself smaller in a way. She gives really a lot in that moment in the smallest away. She’s so still. You’d worry whether someone has that in them, especially someone who’s been in a lot of big productions. That scene, while we were shooting it, I was like, this is beautiful. Even with all the craziness of the wind. We were blocking them on every side—nothing could even stand up, it was so windy. But everybody felt [that moment]. I looked at the sound guy. He was like, Whoa. It was just very beautiful while it was happening. - Kelly Reichardt
Kelly Reichardt Talks ‘Certain Women,’ Moving to Montana, Assembling an Ensemble & More by Nick Newman, The film Stage | Tweet | 20161012

★★★½ Certain Women by Brian Tallerico, Roger Ebert | 20171014
but the final 45 minutes, which also features spectacular work from Stewart, more than makes up for it.
Film of the Week: Certain Women by Jonathan Romney, Film Comment | 20161013
Kristen Stewart evokes a very different, pinched weariness as Beth, showing another register of the taut inwardness she explores so superbly in Olivier Assayas’s Personal Shopper.

Review Kristen Stewart and Laura Dern anchor Kelly Reichardt's remarkable 'Certain Women'
By Justin Chang, LA Times | Tweet | 20161013
What passes between these two women is as pure and extraordinary as it is impossible to classify. Stewart, the rare Hollywood supernova who can vanish completely into Reichardt’s nondescript world, seems to peer downward into herself, as though afraid to meet the camera’s gaze.

New York Film Festival | 20 Sep - 16 Oct, 2016


Sundance Film Festival | January 21 to January 31, 2016

★★★★☆ Certain Woman review: Kelly Reichardt returns melancholy yet triumphant by Nigel M Smith, The Guardian | 20160125
And Stewart continues to impress, following a revelatory performance in Clouds of Sils Maria, as a young woman seemingly oblivious to the effect she has others.
Certain Women Theatrical Review by Jordan Raup, The film Stage | Tweet | 20170125
Certain Women will make one reconsider those seemingly slight encounters we have every day with those around us, and the effect they may have on others. With Reichardt fully in control of the stories she’s telling, each of these characters are longing for such a seemingly small, but emotionally revelatory experience.
Kristen Stewart opens up to the Hollywood Reporter on her new Sundance film. The actress says, “What drew me personally to it was it’s really sad to watch two people on two completely different pages, maybe think they’re understanding something but you’re just having two separate conversations."

Certain Women: Sundance Review by Leslie Felperin, THR | 20160124
It’s no accident that the rawest emotional moment in Certain Women is when the ranch hand and Elizabeth look directly into each other’s eyes in a car park, finally truly seeing each other for the first time.
Kristen Stewart stopped by the Variety Studio to discuss her Sundance film “Certain Women,” directed by Kelly Reichardt.

Sundance Film Review: ‘Certain Women’ by Guy Lodge, Variety | 20160124
There’s complete onscreen parity, for example, between a relative newcomer like Gladstone and a megawatt star like Stewart — both unobtrusively superb

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