Wendy and Lucy
Wendy (Michelle Williams) drives to Alaska - accompanied by her mutt, Lucy - hoping to find steady employment and the start of a new life. When her car breaks down in Oregon, it sets off a chain reaction that quickly brings Wendy to a state of isolation and despair. Featuring a luminous performance from Michelle Williams, Wendy and Lucy explores sympathy and generosity at the edges of American life, revealing the limits of compassion and duty in the context of harsh financial times.
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Très, très tranquille - Tigidou
Bien qu'il y est quelques éléments intéressants (relation entre le personnage principal et les personnages secondaires), ce film demeure vraiment très monotone. Il ne se passe simplement pas grand chose et au moment où on croit qu'il va y avoir un aboutissement, ça se termine.Wendy and Lucy - djfunkybob
This low budget indie is an acquired taste. The story of a young woman (Wendy) and her sole companion and dog (Lucy) takes some time to develop, but you will be rewarded with a genuine, heartbreaking tale if you stick with it. Williams may be the only actor you recognize and even she is barely recognizable as the heroine. Wendy is a misguided transient of little means, burdened by unfortunate circumstance, and who has packed-up, cashed-out and is caught nowhere between Indiana and Alaska . You may get frustrated that the story is all middle (i.e., no beginning or end); however, it shouldn’t really matter what has set her upon this road or the where the road will take her.A Tender, Tough, Uncompromising Film - CharleyJames
Wendy and Lucy is ostensibly about a young woman, Wendy (Michelle Williams), traveling to find work in Alaska, her detour when her car breaks down and her traveling companion, a dog named Lucy, goes missing at a stop in Portland.
But as director Kelly Reichardt presents her story, it becomes something much more: A down-to-earth portrait of a single woman of limited resources on a road fraught with potential predators and random potholes. Wendy is like a lot of folks just scraping by, merely one disaster away from losing it all.
This isn't the romantic road movie of Alexander Supertramp in Into the Wild. This is survival, revealed in all the blunt details of a documentary portrait and the simple power of Williams' unadorned performance. When Lucy runs off and Wendy tracks her to a group of young drifters gathered around a bonfire, Reichardt keeps her camera back to watch Williams' careful and wary body language tell the story of her vulnerability.
That vulnerability isn't simply physical. With no fixed address, no cell phone and dwindling savings all in cash, she's practically off the grid. Every penny is accounted for and she sweeps the seats for change.
When her car breaks down, the ripples of minor obstacles have major repercussions. So, too, do the small kindnesses of a security guard (Wally Dalton) and an understanding mechanic (Will Patton, filling his tiny role with life and character).
It's a tender, tough, uncompromising film, photographed with a disarming directness and seeming simplicity that looks almost naked next to the dramatic constructions of most films. It just makes Lucy's precariousness all the more real.
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Très, très tranquille - Tigidou
Bien qu'il y est quelques éléments intéressants (relation entre le personnage principal et les personnages secondaires), ce film demeure vraiment très monotone. Il ne se passe simplement pas grand chose et au moment où on croit qu'il va y avoir un aboutissement, ...Wendy and Lucy - djfunkybob
This low budget indie is an acquired taste. The story of a young woman (Wendy) and her sole companion and dog (Lucy) takes some time to develop, but you will be rewarded with a genuine, heartbreaking tale if you stick with it. Williams may be the only actor ...A Tender, Tough, Uncompromising Film - CharleyJames
Wendy and Lucy is ostensibly about a young woman, Wendy (Michelle Williams), traveling to find work in Alaska, her detour when her car breaks down and her traveling companion, a dog named Lucy, goes missing at a stop in Portland.
But as director Kelly ...