The opening credits of Kelly Reichardt’s “The Mastermind” feature a driving, percussive score from jazz musician Rob Mazurka. It’s busy, it’s loud, and it’s set to the backdrop of … suburban Massachusetts.

More specifically, it plays over fall in suburban Massachusetts in the 1970s. Vibrant colors, brick buildings, and a soft, ethereal beauty that doesn’t quite match up with the explosiveness of Mazurka’s score – after all, the Framingham Art Museum doesn’t necessarily scream avant-garde jazz. That disconnect, however, is the same one that lives inside the film’s protagonist: big, messy, and stuck in the suburbs.

This opening credits sequence sets up the core tension of “The Mastermind,” a film that both expands Reichardt’s purview and plays into her greatest strengths as a filmmaker. “T

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