Review of Certain Women (2016) by Beecee — 23 Oct 2016

I agree with the users rather than the critics. This is very much in the tradition of "Cinema Verite", and it looks at the lives of four women who loosely intersect in a small town in Montana.

The film does manage to create a mood, and there are some good actors and performances. Yet it is a very slow-moving, tedious and rather depressing film which focusses on the inability of the characters to make (or keep) connections with other people.

The first segment, with Laura Dern as an attorney who has a prospective client who was injured on his former job, initially holds some promise, yet this story doesn't go much of anywhere. The point to the second story seems to be that the audience knows something about her husband that she doesn't.

The young actress who plays the ranch hand in the third segment is sympathetic, yet the story is undeveloped. I saw this film because I like to support women filmmakers, but there are too many long, drawn out shots - and, again, no compelling story.