This indie-drama follows Wendy (Michelle Williams), heading from some unspecified personal disaster towards a new life in Alaska with her...
This indie-drama follows Wendy (Michelle Williams), heading from some unspecified personal disaster towards a new life in Alaska with her beloved yellow-gold mongrel, Lucy. She’s stranded in a backwater Oregon town, low on funds, waiting for her car to be repaired when Lucy goes missing. Distraught but stoic, she searches for the dog, dependent on the kindness of strangers in a town where no one has much of anything to spare.
Working again with writer Jon Raymond, director Kelly Reichardt (Old Joy) delivers a miniature, minimalist, quietly devastating slice of contemporary Americana. (Source: NZ International Film Festival 2009)
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67 %12,222 reviewsAudience score rating
""Old Joy" helmer Kelly Reichardt plays to her strengths in Wendy and Lucy, a modest yet deeply felt road movie about an idealistic young drifter, her faithful canine and the wide-open spaces of the Pacific Northwest."
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Variety
Variety"From Turner & Hooch to Marley & Me, the dog-and-its-owner subgenre is as loyal to its X&Y title format as to its familiar brand of amiable, lightweight comedy. But the eponymous heroines of Kelly Reichardt’s sadcore indie are a breed apart."
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Total Film
Total Film"She's infuriating, but the movie, for all its morose impassivity, is beautiful and haunting."
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The New York Times
The New York Times"Simple story, beautifully told."
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Rolling Stone
Rolling Stone"Another illustration of how absorbing a film can be when the plot doesn't stand between us and a character."
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Roger Ebert
Roger Ebert"Michelle Williams does her best but she cannot prevent Kelly Reichardt's Wendy and Lucy, a weak tale about being broke and on the road in rural America, from dwindling into boredom."
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Hollywood Reporter
Hollywood Reporter"Slow, ponderous, meticulously rendered realism that will appeal to specific audiences of slow, ponderous, meticulously rendered realism, with a heart."
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Empire Magazine
Empire MagazineWendy and Lucy | Details
- Runtime
- 80
- Genre
- Drama
- Country of origin
- USA
