Michelle Williams keeps her performance movingly small as artist Lizzy, who must find a balance between her passion and everyday obligations.

In her new film, Kelly Reichardt (First Cow) goes beyond the usual romanticization of the artist's existence as an agonizing search for the sublime. For her main character Lizzy, finding a balance between passion and everyday obligations is difficult enough. Lizzy works silently and concentrated on her ceramics; modest in size, great in expression. Her art is the opposite of that of Jo, the friend and colleague from whom she rents a modest apartment in Portland, Oregon. Jo is more outgoing, popular and casual.

Showing Up is a film of unremarkable conflicts, which nevertheless characterizes with great insight the life of an artist such as there are millions of people around the world: devoted to their gift, indifferent to money and fame, and destined for a marginal place in the world. art history. The film had its world premiere in the Cannes competition in 2023.