2016 Directed by Kelly Reichardt
Three strong-willed women strive to forge their own paths amidst the wide-open plains of the American Northwest: a lawyer forced to subdue a troubled client; a wife and mother whose plans to construct her dream home reveal fissures in her marriage; and a lonely ranch hand who forms an ambiguous bond with a young law student.
Laura Dern Kristen Stewart Michelle Williams Lily Gladstone James Le Gros Jared Harris René Auberjonois John Getz Sara Rodier Ashlie Atkinson Guy Boyd Edelen McWilliams James Jordan Matt McTighe Joshua T. Fonokalafi Zena Dell Lowe Marceline Hugot Stephanie Campbell Kilty Reidy Gabriel Clark Kory Gunderson
어떤 여인들, Vidas de mujer, 属于她们的片刻, زنان خاص, 어떤 여자들, Anumite femei, Certaines Femmes, Несколько женщин, Κάποιες Γυναίκες, Одабране жене, Certas Mulheres, Egyes nők, Mutlak Kadınlar, נשים מסוימות, Деякі жінки, Kobiecy świat, Някои жени, 某种女人, Ciertas mujeres, ライフ・ゴーズ・オン 彼女たちの選択, 屬於她們的片刻, Dažas sievietes, ผู้หญิงหัวใจทรนง
USA
Sundance Film Festival
Russian Federation18+
USAR
FranceTP
Germany0
Ireland12A
UK12A
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Certain Women earnestly articulates the lonely frustration of being a certain type of woman -- certain as in particular as well as in self-assured. As strong as we appear to be, sometimes we just want men (and Kristen Stewart) to listen to us, to trust us, to believe us.
big shoutout to mundane living and the underrated strength required to endure it 🤠
imagining lily gladstone picking me up on her horse from my job that i hate to take me to a diner. she could fix me.
There's a sensation I feel when listening to some ambient music, something I assume many people feel, of being lulled, of being calmed, of being weightless. That's what this film, with its long, quiet spaces; wide open landscapes; and intricate details does. It suffuses you with peace, even in its most awkward moments, even with the threat of violence in the air, even amidst heartbreak or decay. It reminded me so strongly of the sensation I felt reading Casey Plett's "Not Bleak." In the face of the bitter cold (you can feel it just by watching--something about all those coats), it seems easy to slip into feeling removed from this film, but the mixture of performance (no weak performance graces…
There's something about this lonely movie filled with ache and missed potentials and things just not going quite the way they feel like they should; it feels like home. It's like being woken up on a Sunday by the sun on your face: the comfort of the things that are always there but also that residual feeling of all the things that aren't.
87/100
Kelly Reichardt's Certain Women aches with the wind of a thousand lives lost to the blistering cold. Its cast may be individualistic, but their mingling relationships are already doomed, stamped to the far outstretches of fate. The winding landscapes of small-town Montana feel disconnected from America's progress into modernity, evident by scenes constructed out of alienating office cubicles, restaurants, and school parking lots. These people are so lonely, so uncertain in spite of their chosen particularity that the film's expansion of time - trains roaming as transport, horses strolling across a winter night - captures impeccable nuance in their unspoken desires and frustrations. They're surrounded by advances in culture and technology, but their tired eyes and haunted gestures seem…
Mesmerisingly mundane, it feels like one of those days when you’re especially sensitive and everything around you feels dramatic but in a good way.
63/100
Have now spent several days trying to perceive a coherent whole in these three barely-connected stories, and am still failing. The middle one in particular befuddles me—it felt bizarrely inconsequential while I was watching it, and theses that I've since read online and/or heard from friends, while solid enough, only serve to further isolate it from the other two in my mind. Not wholly sold on the initial tale, either, which is thoroughly absorbing in the moment but kinda left me shrugging post-epilogue. Airlift the final chapter out of Certain Women and make it a stand-alone short, however, and it would likely be my favorite film of the year. Don't want to say much about it, since its power…
every time I watch this I have a new mvp… this time it’s Jared Harris <3 most beautiful movie about how women are basically just boring and tired
