From Page To Screen: Certain Women (2016)

Screening as part of the 2025 From Page To Screen film festival

Introduced by festival curator Andrew Chater

Based on stories by Maile Meloy, director Kelly Reichardt (First Cow, Wendy and Lucy) sets her subtle triptych in Montana’s mountains and plains (poetically captured by cinematographer Christopher Blauvelt) – an empty, isolated landscape that reflects glimpses of loneliness and longing in the lives of four women.

Laura Dern is a lawyer whose calm professionalism masks a simmering resentment of the clients, colleagues and cops comprising her workload in small-town America. Michelle Williams is a high-achieving control freak focused on building a perfect rural retreat while her family is slipping away from her. But it’s the final strand, where Kristen Stewart’s harassed and exhausted night school teacher encounters pensive horse rancher Lily Gladstone (Oscar-nominated for Killers of the Flower Moon), that will stay with you the longest.

Dir. Kelly Reichardt, USA 2016, 107 mins. With Laura Dern, Kristen Stewart, Michelle Williams, Lily Gladstone, James Le Gros, Jared Harris.

Certificate 12A

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Bridport Arts Centre

Thursday 24 April at 2pm

Tickets: £6.50 (Under 25’s £6.00)

Festival Offer

All 11am and 2pm films for £34.50 (50% Discount)

Tickets available from Bridport Tourist Information Centre, Bridport Town Hall, South Street DT6 3LF. Tel: 01308 424901 or online HERE