In pretentious, dreary, dirge drama "Showing Up" Michelle Williams is a dowdy, live alone, clay sculptor working (with the likes of Andre 3000 & her mum Maryann Plunkett) at a hippy-dippy artists' school from which her self-satified patronising landlady Hong Chau graduated to critical success (while Williams stalled in mundanity). Williams also btw keeps an eye on aging dad Judd Hirsch (himself a retired clay sculptor) & mentally ill brother John Magaro. Experienced co-writer (with Jonathan Raymond) / director Kelly Reichardt wallows in her banal drabness with a plodding pointless plot, deliberately grainy photography & sub-standard muffled sound. A painfully dull turd. Flush!
Review of Showing Up
