Michelle Williams (The Fablemans), in her fourth collaboration with the director, plays Lizzy, a Portland sculptor whose exhibition opens in a week’s time; anxious and irritable, Lizzy is hypersensitive to the minor nuisances that pull focus from her work, such as Jo (Hong Chau), a rival artist who has rented an apartment to Lizzy, and who repeatedly ignores her pleas to fix the plumbing. Add in divorced parents at loggerheads, a mentally ill brother, and a wounded pigeon, and it’s little wonder that Lizzie is in a state of emotional implosion. 

Showing Up is another of Reichardt’s perfectly formed miniatures, an entirely engrossing and satisfying exercise in understatement.