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    Review: Kelly Reichardt's first comedy is a wincingly funny portrait of an artist at work

    by Justin Chang, Los Angeles Times Apr 07, 2023 5 minutes
    Michelle Williams in the movie "Showing Up."

    More than once in "Showing Up," her wry and wonderful new movie, the director Kelly Reichardt gives us something that feels rarer than it should in American cinema: a lingering moment in the presence of an artist at work. Not a famous writer pounding self-consciously away at a typewriter, cranking out page after page of voice-over-excerpted masterpiece; not a genius tackling a blank canvas that will, a few scenes later, be a gorgeous finished painting. Lizzy (Michelle Williams), the artist we're following, is a Portland-based sculptor of limited means, modest aspirations and no particular reputation. But her work is lovely and expressive and not to be hurried — not by her own process, which is assured and meticulous, and certainly not by the camera peeking quietly over her shoulder.

    For minutes at a time we are seated with Lizzy in her upstairs office or in the garage that

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