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2022 Cannes Critics’ Panel: Day 11 – Kelly Reichardt’s Showing Up

Published on May 28, 2022

Feted on the Croisette this year – receiving the Carrosse d’Or award from the Directors’ Fortnight, Kelly Reichardt had to wait until the last day of competition to showcase her understated Showing Up – her fourth film collab with Michelle Williams. Reichardt has been to Cannes only one time before – when she premiered Wendy and Lucy in the Un Certain Regard section.

An artist wants to take a day off to finalize her sculptures for her upcoming show…and life gets in the way. A series of distractions and a nagging hot water issue for apartment’s shower annoy the hell out of Lizzie.

Considering that most films are falling just under the 3 mark, it’s rather impressive that this unassuming yet deft comedy (?) is among the favorites. Sixteen of our jury folks gave this a solid 3 average.

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Eric Lavallée

Eric Lavallée is the founder, CEO, editor-in-chief, film journalist and critic at IONCINEMA.com (founded in 2000). Eric is a regular at Sundance, Cannes and TIFF. He has a BFA in Film Studies at the Mel Hoppenheim School of Cinema. In 2013 he served as a Narrative Competition Jury Member at the SXSW Film Festival. He was an associate producer on Mark Jackson's This Teacher (2018 LA Film Festival, 2018 BFI London). In 2022 he served as a New Flesh Comp for Best First Feature at the 2022 Fantasia Intl. Film Festival. Current top films for 2022 include Tár (Todd Field), All That Breathes (Shaunak Sen), Aftersun (Charlotte Wells).