Certain Women

"3.75⭐️ One of the most introspective films I’ve ever seen and a challenge to rate or review. Quiet, subtly tense, minimally executed. This is not any kind of assault to the senses, rather a tender tap. Four women in three individual unrelated stories connected by place but also by a thread of lonely, entirely internalized kind of gentle desperation. Most notable is Lily Gladstone in an early role who is exquisite. She doesn’t even get credit for being one of the main characters and yet hers is the most empathetic and luminously hopeful. Her final scene with Kristen Stewart is heart rending and just stunningly, beautifully acted. Lily’s face, really in all her scenes, telescopes such finely tuned emotion that words are not needed. This film is not for everyone. It’s very deliberate, almost plodding, and very little happens. But I do think certain women will understand this film on an unconsciously visceral level. And on that note the title’s meaning finally comes into sharp focus. #womenshistorymonth #womensstories "

"This movie is a series of portraits. Character studies of lonely women showing so much complexity by restraint. Women who are smart and have so much to give, but are stuck within the obstinate confines of other people’s needs of them, small towns, unfulfilled dreams…Beautiful acting, especially by Lily Gladstone and Michelle Williams. I tend to like movies that are “about nothing” (but are actually about exploring themes in understated ways), so I liked this movie. But it’s not for everyone. And there is part of me that was so interested and intrigued by each of the three main stories I could have had a whole movie on each one… "