"The writer-director has spent the last three-plus decades turning out idiosyncratic independent films that portray their characters with such intimacy that it feels like the screen is offering a temporary gift of telepathy. Her work is known for its deliberate pace as well as its tight scale, though it should be just as acclaimed for its capacity to undermine expectations."
""Temper this! Don't make me sound like such an old crank," she requests after going on an extensive tangent about how much she hates when people eat during movie screenings - and, yes, that includes popcorn. ("In France, you go sit in a nice beautiful seat and no one's eating. But then it's all in French! You don't know what the hell's going on.") Entertaining complaints aside, Reichardt, 61, is far from an old crank, though she maintains a reputation for not suffering fools."
Kelly Reichardt, 61, has spent more than three decades making idiosyncratic independent films that portray characters with intense intimacy and a sense of temporary telepathy. Her filmmaking favors deliberate pacing and tight scales while often subverting audience expectations. River of Grass (1994) followed a couple who never actually left town. Meek's Cutoff (2010) emphasized mundane, real-time gestures, including a minute-long flintlock reload by Michelle Williams. The Mastermind is Reichardt's ninth and largest film to date: a low-key heist set in autumnal 1970 Massachusetts about a family man, James Blaine Mooney, who plans to steal paintings from his local museum.
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