Wendy and Lucy

United States

2008

80 Min

Color

1.85:1

English

Currently 3.7/5 Stars.
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EXEC Joshua Blum, Todd Haynes, Phil Morrison, Rajen Savjani

PROD Larry Fessenden, Neil Kopp, Anish Savjani

SCR Jonathan Raymond, Kelly Reichardt

CAST Michelle Williams, Will Patton, John Robinson, Wally Dalton, Larry Fessenden, Will Oldham, Gabe Nevins, Lucy

PROD DES Ryan Smith

Toronto (Contemporary World Cinema), Cannes (Un Certain Regard), London, AFI FEST (Special Screenings), Rotterdam (Spectrum), BAFICI (Retro Kelly Reichardt), Stockholm (American Independents)

Synopsis

A woman’s life is derailed en route to a potentially lucrative summer job. When her car breaks down, and her dog is taken to the pound, the thin fabric of her financial situation comes apart, and she is led through a series of increasingly dire economic decisions. –IMDb

Director

Kelly Reichardt

Kelly Reichardt is a screenwriter and film director working within American indie cinema. Her debut film River of Grass was released in 1994. It was nominated for three Independent Spirit Awards, as well as the Grand Jury Prize at the Sundance Film Festival. In 1999, she completed her sophomore feature, Ode, based on Herman Raucher’s novel Ode to Billie Joe. Next, she made two short films, Then a Year, made in 2001, and Travis, which deals with the Iraq War, in 2004. Most of her films are regarded to be part of the minimalist movement in films.

In 2006, she completed Old Joy, based on the short story by Jon Raymond, starring Daniel London and singer-songwriter Will Oldham as two friends who reunite for a camping trip to the Cascades and Bagby Hot Springs, near Portland, Oregon. The film won awards from the Los Angeles Film Critics Association, Rotterdam International Film Festival and Sarasota Film Festival. Neil Kopp won the Producer’s Award at the 2007 Independent Spirit Awards… read more

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Cee Dawg

17May13

Lu ;(

Beatrice

1Mar13

" You can't get a address without an address. You can't get a job without a job. "

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PolarisDiB

10Oct12

This movie is rough. It's an American Bicycle Thieves but she loses her dog instead of a bicycle and doesn't even have the amount of companionship and support as the neorealist protagonist. It's a very well made but depressing film, and unfortunately reflects on an actually extant subculture of poor young people that is mostly looked over and has probably only expanded in size since this movie came out.--PolarisDiB

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Mogambo

10Oct12

the opening scene where she is in the park with lucy is poetic beyond words.
PolarisDiB

10Oct12

^Long takes are one thing but I do get a shiver of appreciation when the loose, wandering movement of a character and something even harder to block, like a dog, actually have their whole movement blocked in one fluid one-speed tracking shot. Sometimes the trees get in the way in a manner less than aesthetically pleasing but you can't fault the location or the perspective and for that matter, to make that scene better would have meant cutting down the trees, so that's no good.--DB
Mogambo

10Oct12

Reichardt can do a dreamy sequence like nobody's business. I was enchanted by that shot in W&L. I FELT a sense of contentedness watching it. in that scene, that moment, wendy wanted for nothing. of course this quickly juxtaposed by a harsh reality where she has nothing.
Mogambo

22Oct12

I've had the w&l thread bookmarked for a while. glad to see you went in there and dropped them DiB bombs of knowledge. looking forward to reading through it.

Emmma

3Oct12

There is some great acting in this little movie. Just one bad thing after another happens to this lady and there are only two or three people nice to her. I'm not a big fan of these stories about the hopelessness of life, while the main character really does her best to be polite, find a job, etc.