US Edition10 Questions with Josh O'Connor
Josh O'Connor plays an unemployed artisan who recruits friends to steal art amid 1970s political tensions, blending heist drama with ethical and historical themes.
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US director Kelly Reichardt takes on genres like thrillers or westerns and reinterprets them completely. In »The Mastermind« she now talks about an art robbery that ends in crisis.
10 Questions with Josh O'Connor
Add The Mastermind to your watchlistSouthampton-born actor Josh O’Connor, 35, has gone from Lawrence Durrell in the ITV drama The Durrells to repressed farm-hand in God’s Own Country and Prince Charles in The Crown. This month, before starring in the forthcoming Knives Out movie and taking on a lead role in Steven Spielberg’s new top secret sci-fi film, he’s back on the big screen in The Mastermind, playing a failed carpenter who turns to robbin…
The True Art Heist That Inspired Kelly Reichardt’s ‘The Mastermind,’ Starring Josh O’Connor
Kelly Reichardt’s new film, The Mastermind, centers around an art heist, and while it does depict a high-stakes caper set at a museum, there’s generally little tension. Anyone who knows anything about Reichardt’s leisurely paced filmmaking understands that that’s not such a bad thing. Calling The Mastermind boring might not exactly be an insult. But the film’s slowness has already rankled quite a few people, including some who attended surpris…
Kelly Reichardt's "The Mastermind" is about a bizarre museum theft. The film, which is now in the cinemas, is a light-footed and ludicrous examination of the value of art
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