Three strong-willed women (Kristen Stewart, Laura Dern, Michelle Williams) strive to forge their own paths amidst the wide-open plains of the American Northwest: a lawyer who finds herself contending with both office sexism and a hostage situation; a wife and mother whose determination to build her dream home puts her at odds with the men in her life; and a young law student who forms an ambiguous bond with a lonely ranch hand.

“Slow cinema was made everywhere in our era. We’re in America now. Kelly Reichardt’s film Certain Women.  Laura Dern is a lawyer.  The end of a hostage situation.  Night-time.  Doors and corridors.  Muted colours.  No Hollywood hype. We’ve gotten to know her, like her, but then this cut to another character, another unhurried story.  And then another.  We see these new characters’ daily lives and desires. You could call this structural slowness.” – Mark Cousins