Certain Women (2016)

	Directed by: Kelly Reichardt	COUNTRY USA GENRE Drama NORWEGIAN TITLE Certain Women RUNNING TIME 107 minutes
	Produced by: Neil Kopp Vincent Savino Anish Savjani
	Written by (based on three short stories by Malie Meloy): Kelly Reichardt

Cast includes:
CHARACTER	ACTOR/ACTRESS	RATING
Laura Wells - Attorney	Laura Dern	½
Elizabeth 'Beth' Travis - Attorney	Kristen Stewart	½
Gina Lewis - Wife	Michelle Williams	½
Jamie - Rancher	Lily Gladstone	½
Ryan Lewis - Husband	James LeGros	½
William 'Will' Fuller - Client	Jared Harris
Albert	René Auberjonois	-
Sheriff Rowles	John Getz	-

Review

At its best, Kelly Reichardt's slow-burning, understated cinema is intimately absorbing, such as in the fine third segment of Certain Women, about a boyish ranch hand (Lily Gladstone) who start attending an insignificant class on education law at the local school in order to get closer to the course's young, abstracted teacher (Kristen Stewart). Like with most anthology films, however, Certain Women suffers from a disjointed nature, and Reichardt's feeble attempts at connecting the three stories work more as a distraction than anything else. The middle segment, about a family in slow disintegration (with Michelle Williams and James LeGros) is so prosaic that you hardly notice its there. That being said, the movie's naturalistic approach strips away any typical Hollywood affectations and makes this an authentic, if not exactly engrossing viewing experience.