The Mastermind

In a quiet corner of Massachusetts, in the 1970s, James Mooney is a former art student, now an unemployed carpenter. Feeling lost, he decides to turn to art theft and devises a foolproof plan: to steal half a dozen paintings from a small museum on the outskirts of Boston. Everything is thought out… except where to leave his children during the heist and how to sell the paintings. When things go wrong, his life unravels. With The Mastermind, Kelly Reichardt deconstructs the codes of the heist film and pays tribute to the classics of New Hollywood.