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)

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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Judicial Joe

11Jan12

Reichardt updates UMBERTO D. and makes a slightly better film than De Sica's.

Andrew Colville

11Jan12

read a lot about this being "a statement on 'the economic crisis'" before watching, but i don't feel that way at all. it seemed to me that the movie is not attempting to "achieve" anything or be rhetorical in any way, which i liked a lot. it was highly realistic, in that i can very easily imagine this literally being "real life" that someone secretly filmed in a cinematic style i enjoy. an emotive, interesting movie