A film about a daring gallery robbery — don't expect anything about the Louvre

A film about a gallery robbery is a very common plot. It comes out just a few days after the theft from the Louvre. The truth is in a fun and unconventional drama format. Director Kelly Reichardt tells the story of the crime investigation and Josh O'Connor as a conman.

The film, notes xrust, is of the “cozy crime” category. He fits in with the hopeful, cardigan-clad detectives. They currently dominate both the pages and the screens. For Kelly Reichardt, director of the new film Mastermind, it has a different meaning, as it certainly does for anyone who comes from a family with ties to law enforcement.

The fact is that Reichardt's mother was an undercover drug agent, and her father was a detective. When the couple broke up, she got a stepfather — an FBI agent. On weekends spent with her father, who had moved into the house of four other recently divorced colleagues, she was sometimes assigned to solve mysteries, as if it were some kind of youth murder mystery club on Thursdays.

It is not surprising that several of Reichardt's films have dealt with crime, starting with her debut from 1994's River of Grass, in which two lovers half-heartedly go on the run after being mistaken for murderers, to 2013's Night Moves, starring Jesse Eisenberg and Dakota Fanning as environmental activists who blow up a dam. Her charming 2019 masterpiece, First Cow, is about the most low-key heist imaginable: two early 19th-century entrepreneurs steal milk by moonlight for their fledgling donut business.

Mastermind is a more traditional heist, though Reichardt portrays him in a completely unconventional way. The film takes place in Massachusetts in 1970 and is partly inspired by a real-life case — the theft of four abstract paintings.

Xrust A film about a daring gallery robbery — don't expect about the Louvre