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October 14, 2016

At the Movies: Actresses spellbinding in ‘Certain Women'

By LINDSEY BAHR
AP Film Writer

Kristen Stewart plays Beth, who travels four hours each way two times a week to teach.

“Certain Women” is a quiet, introspective film about three women living and existing in a frozen Montana town. Does it sound dull? Sure. But on the screen it plays out like a slow-burning folk song you could sit with for hours. It's perhaps writer-director Kelly Reichardt's finest work, understated and elegant and well worth a trip to the cinema to slip into the exquisitely literary vignettes of Beth (Kristen Stewart), Gina (Michelle Williams) and Laura (Laura Dern).


 
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