Film EventsWomen Director Series - KAJILLIONAIREThursday, June 25, 2026 at 7:30 PM
Certain Women is a film series at the Orinda Theater highlighting women directors, with shorts to precede each feature.
Selected and Introduced by your local programmers/projectionists... Linda Izcali Scobie & Chloe Ginnever
KAJILLIONAIRE, (2020) Directed by Miranda July
From acclaimed writer/director Miranda July comes a profoundly moving and wildly original comedy.
Con-artists Theresa (Debra Winger) and Robert (Richard Jenkins) have spent 26 years training their only daughter, Old Dolio (Evan Rachel Wood), to swindle, scam, and steal at every opportunity. During a desperate, hastily conceived heist, they charm a stranger (Gina Rodriguez) into joining their next scam, only to have their entire world turned upside down.
Preceded by:
ATLANTA, (1996) Directed by Miranda July
A 12-year-old Olympic swimmer and her mother (both played by July) speak to the public about going for the gold.
“As the film progresses through subtle editing-in-reverse, July reveals the world around the televised facade. ... The 23-year-old performer convincingly plays both Dawn Schnavel and her mom, or rather, vanishes into them. What’s noticeable isn’t so much the ease with which July transforms herself into a pre-teen girl and an older woman but the similarities and differences between the daughter and the mother July becomes.”
—Derk Richardson, “The Marvelous World of Miranda July,” San Francisco Bay Guardian (3 June 1998)