Beatrice Loayza

The art of the steal: Kelly Reichardt on The Mastermind

Kelly Reichardt’s The Mastermind offers a fresh spin on the crime caper movie in a tale of a deadbeat thief planning a snatch-and-grab raid on an art gallery in 1970. The director explains why this is “more of a coming-undone film than a heist film” and how her impulse to question genre norms helps her uncover new ways of thinking.