Michelle Williams gives a terrific performance as an ornery artist in 'Showing Up,' writes Stephanie Zacharek (szacharek)
a movie so fine-grained that you’re almost not prepared for the subtle power of its ending—the story is brought to land, almost literally, with the beating of wings.is Lizzy, a sculptor living in Portland, Ore., and getting ready to mount a small but, for her, important show. Before we even meet her, we see soft watercolor sketches of her ceramic works-in-progress, carefully molded figures of women of all ages who seem to be dancing, or weeping, or possibly both.
But like all artists Lizzy is also, whether she wants to be or not, a person living in the world.
Lizzy has more moderate problems too: it’s her cat, Ricky, a small orange jerk, who sets the plot in motion with a flick of his paw. Lizzy is bedeviled by all of it, and Williams, a formidable actor, channels her annoyance like a subsonic hum. This is the fourth movie she and Reichardt have made together. They’re simpatico souls; Reichardt couldn’t have made a movie as weird and great and intimate as this one with just anybody. Theis a kind of sorcery.
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