{"id":163956,"date":"2025-08-21T14:17:11","date_gmt":"2025-08-21T14:17:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/163956\/"},"modified":"2025-08-21T14:17:11","modified_gmt":"2025-08-21T14:17:11","slug":"kelly-reichardt-directs-josh-oconnor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/163956\/","title":{"rendered":"Kelly Reichardt Directs Josh O’Connor"},"content":{"rendered":"

A new Kelly Reichardt<\/a> movie is always cause for celebration, and this fall will see her return to the big screen<\/a> with \u201cThe Mastermind<\/a>.\u201d The Josh O\u2019Connor vehicle sees the famously deliberate director taking her talents to New England in the 1970s, with the actor starring as a carpenter who makes a regrettable career pivot into art theft.<\/p>\n

An official synopsis for the film<\/a> reads: \u201cIn a sedate corner of Massachusetts circa 1970, JB Mooney (Josh O\u2019Connor), an unemployed carpenter turned amateur art thief, plans his first big heist. When things go haywire, his life unravels.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cThe Mastermind\u201d premiered in competition at the 2025 Cannes Film Festival, where critics praised Reichardt for branching out from her typical Pacific Northwest locations and subject matter while still keeping her distinct style intact.<\/p>\n

\"Best<\/a> \"Peter<\/a> <\/p>\n

\u201cShot on\u00a0film\u00a0with the grainy warmth that evokes a sleepy 1970 New England municipality as much as it does actual movies from the \u201870s, \u2018The Mastermind\u2019 is\u00a0Reichardt\u2019s version of a heist movie \u2014 meaning that the filmmaker hijacks conventions laid by filmmakers like Jean-Pierre Melville and Sidney Lumet for a spin that still retains her patient bent for long, luxuriating takes,\u201d IndieWire\u2019s Ryan Lattanzio wrote<\/a> in his Cannes review. \u201cHere,\u00a0Josh O\u2019Connor\u00a0plays J.B. Mooney (what a name!), an art thief who falls down a hole of his own digging, as a poorly hatched job to rip off a series of Arthur Dove abstract paintings from a fictional Massachusetts museum sends his private and family lives careening out of his grasp.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cThe Mastermind\u201d is written and directed by Kelly Reichardt, who reunites with her frequent cinematographer Christopher Blauvelt. In addition to O\u2019Connor, the film stars Alana Haim, Gaby Hoffman, John Magaro, Hope Davis, and Bill Camp. The film will next screen at the New York Film Festival<\/a> alongside other Cannes, Venice, and Toronto favorites and premieres like Bradley Cooper\u2019s \u201cIs This Thing On?\u201d<\/p>\n

The film is part of a big fall for O\u2019Connor, who also stars alongside Paul Mescal in \u201cThe History of Sound\u201d and in Rian Johnson\u2019s new \u201cKnives Out\u201d mystery \u201cWake Up Dead Man.\u201d Next spring, he stars alongside Emily Blunt in Steven Spielberg\u2019s untitled UFO blockbuster.<\/p>\n

A MUBI release, \u201cThe Mastermind\u201d opens in select theaters on Friday, October 17. Watch the trailer below.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

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