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Our review of Showing up: the delicate art of bohemianism

2023-05-02T16:39:20.721Z


CRITICISM – With her film, presented in competition at the last Cannes Film Festival, Kelly Reichardt makes fun, but never in a sneering way, of the artists.


Bob hair, long skirt, floral blouse, mules or crocs on her feet, gray socks... Michelle Williams looks like a sad little girl or a Japanese fashionista, which comes to the same thing.

Or even a mouse.

However, she has a cat, her only companion in her small house in Portland.

Before having to collect a pigeon, injured in a wing.

A waste of time and money (150 vet dollars).

Two female friends and rivals

Kelly Reichardt's cinema is populated by animals.

The dog in

Wendy & Lucy

, the cow in

First Cow

.

In

Showing up

, the American director observes these strange zebras that are the artists.

Lizzie is a sculptor.

The works, created by Cynthia Lathi, essentially depict women in awkward postures.

Read alsoIsabelle Huppert and Kelly Reichardt, without ceremony

She is a few weeks away from the opening of her exhibition.

To pay her rent and the cat's food, she works in an art school.

His mother is his employer and is reluctant to give him a day off.

Her neighbor, Jo (Hong Chau), is…

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