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This film is written, edited, and directed by Kelly Reichardt.
Film Information
Celebrated filmmaker Kelly Reichardt (First Cow, Showing Up) directs an unforgettable Josh O’Connor in The Mastermind, her latest Cannes triumph. As the film playfully subverts caper tropes and skillfully incorporates period details, O’Connor’s embodiment of a hapless, hangdog antihero is ideally attuned to his director’s deadpan wavelengths and Rob Mazurek’s melancholic score. This is a delightfully droll portrait of a man who might get off scot-free but can’t escape his own worst tendencies.
In a sedate Massachusetts suburb circa 1970, unemployed family man and amateur art thief J.B Mooney sets out on his first heist. With the museum cased and accomplices recruited, he has an airtight plan. Or so he thinks. When things go haywire, his life unravels.
Reviews
"Kelly Reichardt may never have met a genre she couldn’t meticulously deconstruct. But rarely has she done so with such offbeat wit and bluesy wisdom as with anti-heist movie The Mastermind... Very possibly her most accessible and enjoyable film to date, still it remains an unmistakably Reichardtian investigation into the fabric of ordinariness and what happens when it frays." – Variety
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