Showing Up

Film details
| Film Title | Showing Up |
|---|---|
| Suitability | |
| Genre | |
| Length | 108mins |
| Year | 2022 |
| Country | United States of America |
| Director | Kelly Reichardt |
| Actors | Michelle Williams, Hong Chau, Maryann Plunkett, John Magaro, André 3000, Amanda Plummer, Matt Malloy, Heather Lawless, James Le Gros, Denzel Rodriguez, Eudora Peterson, Judd Hirsch, Todd-o-Phonic Todd, Lauren Lakis, Jean-Luc Boucherot |
| Language | English |
| Showings |
In the days leading up to a possibly career-changing exhibition, a sculptor navigates her relationships with family, friends, and colleagues.
There’s been no better movie to encapsulate the year, and no better movie, period, than Kelly Reichardt’s matchless Showing Up, which is all about making art in a world that also requires you to make money.
Like Lizzy’s sculptures, there’s a wounded tactility at work here—in miniature, even. What you get out of it will depend on your patience for such thoughtful if prickly work.
That this moody, woozy character study falls closer to the “masterpiece” side of the fence isn’t a surprise, considering it comes from Kelly Reichardt and Michelle Williams, one of the best filmmaker-actor duos of the last quarter century.
The on-the-surface modesty of Showing Up is a kind of sorcery. It’s in the days afterward, when you’ve left its spell and gone back to the world, that its essence is more likely to take shape…






