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Kitty Green’s debut dramatic feature follows a young woman working in movie production for an unseen, womanizing boss

Kitty Green’s “The Assistant” reveals its game slowly, with a confidence you wouldn’t expect from a debut dramatic feature. For a while it seems to be about nothing more than a day in the life of a dutiful young woman doing mundane chores at a movie production office in Lower Manhattan.

Jane is a junior assistant to the chairman of the company. Intense and often melancholy, she’s surrounded by condescending men who work with, and pander to, the unseen, unnamed, dictatorial and notoriously womanizing boss. The movie’s game is opportunistic—we’re clearly meant to think of Harvey Weinstein—but also timely...

 

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