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When Wendy's car breaks down in a small Oregon town on her way to a summer job in Alaska, she faces tough financial decisions that not only impact her
Kelly Reichardt’s second feature, Wendy and Lucy, has even more Pacific Northwest piney quietude than her debut Old Joy, since its starring couple is a canine-human pair rather than a male duo. Will Oldham again makes a charged appearance, this time as Icky (Will Oldham), a grungy, train-hopping punk. Based on a short story, this time Jonathan Raymond’s "Train Choir," Wendy and Lucy’s dialogue is a sparse spattering amongst long, languid scenes that moodily portray a young woman, Wendy (Michelle Williams), suffering economic crisis and road trip malaise on her way to work Alaskan fishing boats. The bulk of the story takes place in Portland, where her Honda breaks down and she must engage the local mechanic (Will Patton) and Walgreen’s security guard (Wally Dalton) for honest advice and for help finding her dog, Lucy, who disappears during one of Wendy’s disasters. Wendy and Lucy would aptly be titled Wendy’s Bad Day, as problems pile up due to one main misstep. Williams does a great job portraying a woman who is semi self-sufficient but clueless in the art of survival. As the film speaks to many young people who have been broke and stranded, one will inevitably wonder why Wendy makes the unwise choices she does, for example sleeping in a dangerous area along a train track instead of finding a safer campground, or wandering the streets looking for her lost pooch in lieu of hunkering down for a temporary part-time job. The film straddles the line between social realism and fantasy in this regard, provoking frustration during certain plot twists. However, Wendy and Lucy is a pleasure to look at for its grainy greenery, hypnotic, sweeping landscape and train yard shots, and for the story, when it centers on developing the deep bond between a lady and her dog. --Trinie Dalton

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 "The Kindness of Strangers" 2010-08-14
By Grady Harp (Los Angeles, CA United States)
Kelly Reichardt has a penchant for uncovering simple moments in the lives of seemingly insignificant people, treating them for just what they are - life in the ordinary lane of living when something goes awry and makes us notice (Old Joy, River of Grass, Ode, Then a Year, Travis). As in the highly regarded 'Old Joy' this film was based on a short story by Jonathan Raymond who aided Reichardt in adapting it for the screen. The theme of this and other Reichardt films is the breakdown that occurs when something unsuspected disrupts the quiet lives of quiet people. it is not an epic drama: it is a closely observed moment in time to which everyone who is sensitive can relate.

Wendy (Michelle Williams) is a young woman about whom we know very little: she is driving her old car from Indiana to Alaska in search of a job in the fisheries to survive. She is alone in the world, except for her faithful dog Lucy, and the degree of mutual love is palpable. Wendy's car breaks down in a little town in Oregon, she is discovered sleeping in her car with Lucy by an elderly security guard (Wally Dalton) who sympathizes with Wendy's plight, suggests an auto repair shop run by a trustworthy mechanic (Will Patton), and recommends a good store where she can buy food for Lucy and for herself. Following the Security Guards advice she gets a quote from the mechanic (too high, but she must salvage her car), goes to the little store where she ties Lucy to the outside bike rack and enters the store: she shoplifts some food for Lucy and is caught by a cold and rigid young man Andy (John Robinson) and is turned over to the police. Jailed for a while, she returns to the store to get Lucy, but Lucy is gone. Wendy's money is dwindling, she has no car, she has no place to sleep and she has lost her beloved Lucy. The security guard directs her to the humane society pound, offers her the use of his cell phone, but there have been no reports about her dog. Distraught, she makes little signs to place around the town about her lost Lucy, then settles to sleep by the train tracks, but is awakened by a psychotic hobo. At dawn she returns to the store where she lost Lucy, meets the security guard who informs her that there was a call from the pound during the night about Lucy. The security guard gives her some cash out of friendship and Wendy is off to the pound to claim Lucy, only to discover that Lucy is now in a foster home. Wendy visits the address where Lucy is now living, sees that Lucy now has a big yard and food, and makes a difficult decision that proves her devotion to her dog.

One of the themes in this tender film is the importance of the kindness of strangers wiling to look beyond appearances and see the needs of their fellowmen. Yes, there are some flaws in the story - we know too little about Wendy's past and must rely on her current behavior to figure her out, behavior that doesn't always seem reasonable - but making sweeping judgments does to seem to be part of Reichardt's purpose. This is a simple moment, a story that might go unnoticed, and the performance by Michelle Williams glows. Grady Harp, August 10


 "Wendy and Lucy" 2010-06-28
By ledgerina
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 "It felt so real" 2010-06-16
By R Zern (Austin, TX)
Wendy and Lucy is an intimate look into the life of Wendy, even if it is just for a brief moment. We don't hear about the background story, and we don't find out what happens in her future, but we see a small moment of her life in the present.

The movie itself seemed very realistic, which is rare in movies. The story seemed to have truth behind it and nothing was glamorized. By watching it, it felt as if I was experiencing everything that Wendy was experiencing but through my eyes rather than through my actions. The relationship between Wendy and her dog seems as if Lucy really is Wendy's only friend, so the feelings that Wendy feels towards Lucy is easily transferred to the viewer.

It was a brutally honest and true look at being poor and lonely. Michelle Williams did a fantastic job portraying Wendy. Much of the movie was based on her facial expressions and emotions since it was mainly her being alone or interacting with her dog, Lucy.

I'd recommend watching the film to experience the simple, yet engaging story.


 "Amazing Grace" 2010-04-25
By technoguy (Rugby)
She is a drifter with a dog in a car, from Indiana heading for Alaskan work,whose car breaks down in Wilsonville, Oregon. She gets done for shoplifting, and loses her dog. She sleeps rough when not in her car. She carefully budgets what money she has left, about $500. She has two main contacts here, the mechanic(Will Patton), and the elderly guard who watches the car park at the store back..The story is sensitively rendered, and Wendy is an undemonstrative, goodly soul, whose family are portrayed as indifferent to her plight, when she calls them.Her relationship with her dog, Lucy, is the closest she has. We see them in various scenes in the woods or in town together. This performance by Michelle Williams,shows a fragility of character, is subtle and understated. She finds the limits of the world she lives in, between the poles of the uppity store clerk, who thinks she should be made an example of(he wears a cross), and the kindly old guard,who loans her his mobile to call the dog pound (Dalton). This is a story about the marginalised, unemployed, without home or job, whose identity is almost non-existent, and is dependent upon the kindness of strangers. There are scenes of moving stock and train carriages, winding railway lines, and shots of graffiti on the sides of buildings, with finely restrained cinematography. Her car is too expensive to fix, and she finds her dog has been adopted by a good person with a yard. She realizes she has to make sacrifices. This film has the barest of outlines of a plot, and the majority of it occurs stranded in a small north western, Pacific, town where there are no jobs. Williams underplays to bring out the realism of the world she inhabits. Although I found it strange for a young girl travelling in a car, without a mobile phone, I believed in her character. Reichardt has taken a leaf out of Rosetta and Not One Less, world films of grim realism,that work on a thin trail of hope and exploration. Thank God, Hollywood didn't get hold of this:pumped-up scenario,sex and sentimentality. A good film not made from a European original.




 "A Dog's Life" 2010-03-24
By sft (UK)
WENDY AND LUCY is a slight but moving tale of the human spirit crushed by disempowerment. Not much happens here except the small, mundane events that life tends to throw at people. It's a sad, downbeat story without much optimism and it isn't going to appeal to everyone. But if you can appreciate an understated, poignant indictment of the alienation caused by deprivation you should find yourself gripped from start to finish. All but the truly unsympathetic will want Wendy to rise above her desperate situation, and will root for her wholeheartedly. It's also worth noting the performance by Michelle Williams, which is finely measured and absorbing. She really has blossomed since her Dawson's Creek days.


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