Kelly Reichardt's 'The Mastermind' Redefines the Art Heist Genre
TL;DR
Kelly Reichardt's film 'The Mastermind' explores themes of boredom, ambition, and loneliness through a 1970s art heist story, blending genre elements with her signature slow, observational style, and reflecting on surveillance and societal security.
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- Kelly Reichardt on The Mastermind : “Question Why You Want the Things You Want” The Film Stage
- 'Paintings were suddenly seen as money': The reason art heists exploded in the 1970s BBC
- You’ve never seen an art heist film quite like ‘The Mastermind’ | Review The Seattle Times
- Kelly Reichardt’s “The Mastermind” Reinvents the Heist Movie The New Yorker
- Getting Out of Oregon Gave Kelly Reichardt the Best Filmmaking Experience of Her Life IndieWire
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