In a sedate Massachusetts suburb circa 1970, unemployed family man and amateur art thief J.B. Mooney sets out on his first heist. With the museum cased and accomplices recruited, he has an airtight plan. Or so he thinks.
Screenwriter, director and editor born in 1964 in Miami (United States). She earned her MFA at the School of the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston. She made her directorial debut in 1994 with ‘River of Grass’ (1994), premiered at Sundance, and her second feature film, ‘Old Joy’, won the Tiger Award at the Rotterdam Film Festival. ‘Wendy and Lucy’ marked her first participation at Cannes, in the Un Certain Regard section, and in 2010 she premiered ‘Meek's Cutoff’ in Venice, which won the Signis Award. She returned there in 2013 with ‘Night Moves’, which won the award for best cinematography at Seminci, and after ‘Certain Women’ (2016), she competed in Berlin in 2019 with ‘First Cow’, before earning a place in the selection for the Palme d'Or at Cannes in 2022 with ‘Showing Up’ and in 2025 with ‘The Mastermind’. A retrospective of Reichardt’s work took place at the Centre Pompidou in October 2021, and she was awarded the 2022 Carrosse d'Or award at Cannes.