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Certain Women

2016 · 107 min

Quiet, observant and quietly devastating, it drifts between lonely lives with a stillness that lingers.

Directed by: Kelly Reichardt
Genres: Drama
Starring: Laura Dern, Kristen Stewart, Michelle Williams

Overview: Three strong-willed women strive to forge their own paths amidst the wide-open plains of the American Northwest: a lawyer forced to subdue a troubled client; a wife and mother whose plans to construct her dream home reveal fissures in her marriage; and a lonely ranch hand who forms an ambiguous bond with a young law student.

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Directed by: Kelly Reichardt
Genres: Drama
Starring: Laura Dern, Kristen Stewart, Michelle Williams

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Tone: melancholicstrength 2 of 3
earneststrength 2 of 3
warmstrength 1 of 3
tensestrength 1 of 3
Pacing: slow-burn, 1 of 4, from slow-burn to relentless
Attention: demanding, 4 of 4, from background-friendly to demanding
Themes: isolation
loneliness
identity
family
love
Places: small town
countryside
workplace
Era: contemporary
Audience: adult
Form: ensemble
nonlinear
Content intensity: Gore none
Language mild
Violence mild
Sex mild

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Action	1
Horror	0
Humour	2
Realism	9
Romance	3
Tension	4
Darkness	5
Complexity	7
Emotional weight	8

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Genres: drama
Directed by: Kelly Reichardt
Written by: Kelly Reichardt
Starring: Laura Dern, Kristen Stewart, Michelle Williams, Lily Gladstone, James Le Gros, Jared Harris, René Auberjonois, John Getz
Music: Jeff Grace
Cinematography: Christopher Blauvelt
Runtime: 107 min
Country: United States of America
Languages: English

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