"On a recent Monday in October at 9.30am, a group of professional thieves snuck into the Louvre and made off with eight sets of Napoleonic jewels. The break-in was meticulously planned and executed, and the thieves fled the museum in under seven minutes. The same cannot be said, however, for the protagonists of Kelly Reichardt's new - and conveniently timed - art heist film The Mastermind, which opens in UK cinemas this weekend."
"In Reichardt's film, a restless, unemployed carpenter and failed art historian, JB Mooney (Josh O'Connor), enlists his buddies to steal paintings by the American artist Arthur Dove from their local museum in Framingham, Massachusetts. The trio is spotted by a group of schoolgirls, has a scuffle with a security guard, and then fails to last more than a few days before being pinned for the robbery, with Mooney setting off on the run across the northern US."
An actual Louvre jewel theft sets a real-world contrast to a fictional, bungled art theft in Framingham, Massachusetts. Josh O'Connor plays JB Mooney, an unemployed carpenter and failed art historian who recruits friends to steal Arthur Dove paintings. The robbery unravels amid schoolgirl witnesses, a scuffle with a guard, and the trio's swift capture, forcing Mooney to flee across the northern US. The film uses the heist genre as a safety net while subverting expectations, combining Reichardt's characteristic patient long takes with occasional uptempo handheld sequences, demanding close, attentive viewing.
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