Old Joy director Kelly Reichardt crafts this intimate tale of Wendy, an alienated Indiana woman who packs up her car and sets her sights on Alaska, but finds herself stranded in a small Oregon town with no money and only her faithful dog, Lucy, to keep her company. When Wendy realizes that there's nothing keeping her in her home state of Indiana, she makes the decision to relocate to Alaska and seek out work at the local fish cannery. With her four-legged friend Lucy in the passenger seat next to her, Wendy stops off to get ...
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Old Joy director Kelly Reichardt crafts this intimate tale of Wendy, an alienated Indiana woman who packs up her car and sets her sights on Alaska, but finds herself stranded in a small Oregon town with no money and only her faithful dog, Lucy, to keep her company. When Wendy realizes that there's nothing keeping her in her home state of Indiana, she makes the decision to relocate to Alaska and seek out work at the local fish cannery. With her four-legged friend Lucy in the passenger seat next to her, Wendy stops off to get some rest in a small Oregon town. The following morning, when Wendy attempts to start her car, the engine fails to respond. But this is only the first in a series of snowballing events, because as Wendy waits for the local garage to open she heads to the supermarket to pick up some dog food for Lucy. Opting to shoplift the puppy chow since she doesn't have much cash to speak of, Wendy subsequently finds herself in the local jail thanks to an overzealous employee. By the time Wendy pays her fine and gets back to the supermarket, Lucy is gone. Unfortunately the dog pound doesn't open until the following morning, and after receiving some help from a kindly local, Wendy gets some particularly bad news about her car. Jason Buchanan, Rovi
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Will Oldham, Will Patton, Walter Dalton, Michelle Williams, Larry Fessenden. New. 2008 Run time: 80. Buy with confidence-Satisfaction Guaranteed! Delivery Confirmation included for all orders in the US.
It's heartening that Independent films like "Wendy and Lucy" and "Man Push Cart" are being made at all.
I cannot say whether the former is a great film, but its very smallness and quiet serves as a rebuke to the obscenely expensive Hollywood blockbusters.
These films tell the stories of the Other America, of those who've fallen through the cracks.
They're the narratives an Edward Hopper painting would tell if they could: an essential American loneliness. Any American who has had even a taste of the economic edge should be able to be empathetic.
Robert Bresson's "Mouchette," Roberto Rossellini's "Germany Year Zero" and Luis Bunuel's "Los Olvidados" are more severe and heartbreaking, true, but I'm encouraged by "Wendy and Lucy's" Ozu-like stillness, which is a visual balm after Hollywood hyperkineticism.
It isn't Works Progress Administration (WPA) art in which the worker is invariably ennobled--Wendy is far from perfect and makes bad choices--perhaps more like a minimalist story by Raymond Carver, a small slice, shedding light on the margins.
Each morning I drive past the corner where Albuquerque Healthcare for the Homeless is located, seeing the scraggly troops queue up outside the door. Compared to them, Wendy has it good.
