Showing Up

2022
R
1h 47m

IMDb RATING

6.3/10

6.1K

YOUR RATING

A sculptor preparing to open a new show must balance her creative life with the daily dramas of family and friends, in Kelly Reichardt's vibrant and captivatingly funny portrait of art and craft.

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A sculptor preparing to open a new show tries to work amidst the daily dramas of family and friends.A sculptor preparing to open a new show tries to work amidst the daily dramas of family and friends.A sculptor preparing to open a new show tries to work amidst the daily dramas of family and friends.

Director
- Kelly Reichardt
Writers
- Jonathan Raymond
- Kelly Reichardt
Stars

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IMDb RATING

6.3/10

6.1K

YOUR RATING

Director
- Kelly Reichardt
Writers
- Jonathan Raymond
- Kelly Reichardt
Stars

See production info at IMDbPro

Awards
- 5 wins & 9 nominations

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Photos52

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Trivia
The art pieces that Lizzy created in the movie have been made by artist Cynthia Lahti, who lives in Portland, and whose work writer-director Kelly Reichardt has followed for a long time. She also happened to be a longtime friend of Jonathan Raymond, who is the co-writer of this movie. Her work was on Reichardt's mind as she was writing the movie, but when Reichardt first contacted her, she was on the verge of giving up her career. She trained Michelle Williams in sculpting before filming, and while working on the movie, she found a renewed urge to create. By the end of the shoot, she had created so many new pieces that it became difficult to walk inside her workshop.

Goofs
In the first scene Eric uses the kiln, he lays Lizzie's freshly glazed pieces directly on the shelves. This would actually ruin the kiln shelves and the pieces while firing as glaze melts when it's hot and transforms into a glass-like matter which would stick to the shelves.

Crazy credits
The end credits roll over a shot of an art student weaving on a loom.

Connections
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Featured review

5/10

A Test of Patience

I've been a fan of Kelly Reichardt's other movies, notably "Wendy and Lucy" and "First Cow," but this one left me cold.

Michelle Williams plays a sullen and mousy artist who walks around in a fog of frustration over not having enough time for her art because of the demands of other people. I can get on board with a slow burn that reveals bits and pieces of a character's inner life that finally coalesces into something like a whole. But that doesn't happen here. At the very end of the movie, there are some moments that I liked and finally made me start to understand some of the circumstances that contributed to Williams's character being the way she was. But then the movie just abruptly ended, and the pay off was not anywhere near recompense for the tediously slow and border line boring movie that led up to it.

There is a running storyline with an injured pigeon that results in obvious and over used symbolism.

Grade: C