Filmmaker Kelly Reichardt has offered a frank evaluation of American cinema's tendency to recycle its own myths, telling an audience at the Visions du Réel documentary festival in Nyon, Switzerland, that "the American story keeps repeating itself." During a masterclass on Tuesday as part of a broader retrospective to the celebrated filmmaker, Reichardt explored how her films intentionally reposition perspective on conventional storytelling, particularly the Western genre. Rather than claiming to rewrite history, she characterised her approach as a deliberate repositioning of the cinematic lens—moving away from the patriarchal perspective that has long dominated the form to examine what happens...