Take These Broken Wings

Kelly Reichardt on Showing Up

ADAM NAYMAN

After previously playing a dog person for Kelly Reichardt in Wendy and Lucy (2008), Michelle Williams is now a cat person in Showing Up. Quietly intense in her wardrobe of shapeless earth tones, sullenly poking around Portland in crocs and socks, Williams’ Lizzy is finishing up a degree at the Oregon College of Art and Craft (OCAC), where she specializes in sculpture. Her rent-paying job in the school’s front office—under the watchful eye of the department supervisor (Maryann Plunkett), who happens to be her mother—enables her to share her two-floor, studio-basemented apartment with a pushy orange tabby whom Lizzy can barely seem to keep in Kibble. From Robert Altman to Hal Ashby to the Coens, using a feckless feline as shorthand for a loner’s stubbornest traits is an old trick.…

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