Financial analysis of wendy and lucy 2008 including budget, domestic and international box office gross, dvd and bluray sales reports, total earnings and profitability. Wendy michelle williams walks with her dog lucy, the camera tracking from a distance. At the beginning of kelly reichardts deeply affecting wendy and lucy, a young woman, en route to alaska in hopes of getting a job, stalls out in smalltown oregon. Wendy and lucy 2008 stream and watch online moviefone. Before she even utters a word with her body movement and her facial features we get a sense of who wendy is.
Oh, and if youve seen her dog lucy lately, some news of the mutts. Cameron diaz, lucy liu, bernie mac, buitenlandse films, thuisbioscoop. I know so much about wendy, although this movie tells me so little. Wendy michelle williams is traveling to alaska with her dog lucy in hopes of finding a job at a cannery. On the other hand, this nonformulaic film, written, directed and edited by kelly reichardt and acted by a small but excellent cast headed by michelle williams is for me a very good film. Wendy carroll michelle williams is driving to ketchikan, alaska, in hopes of a summer of lucrative work at the northwestern fish cannery, and the start of a. When her car breaks down in oregon, however, the thin fabric of her financial situation comes apart, and she confronts a series of increasingly dire economic decisions, with farranging repercussions for herself and lucy. Wendy and lucy is a faithful continuation of the experimental movements dogma. Proving why she is one of the most highlyregarded auteurs of current cinema, kelly reichardts old joy subtle storytelling technique uses a formal minimalist style to weave together a unique emotional and political road film. Wendy and lucy is a 2008 american drama film directed by kelly reichardt. The quite independent and assertive woman lucy irene. Being a fan of michelle williams was the only reason why i wanted to watch it. Gorgeously filmed in stark, luminous imagery, wendy and lucy addresses issues of sympathy and generosity at the edges of american life, revealing the limits and depths of peoples duty to each other in our modern times.
The film stars michelle williams as wendy, a homeless woman who searches for her lost dog, lucy. She throws a stick, lucy brings it back, and they enjoy the sunny, easy motion of a day in rural oregon. The closer we look at wendy and lucy, the more we need to ask who wendy is, and who she is supposed to be. Wendy and lucy 2008 stream and watch online wendy michelle williams, a nearpenniless drifter, is traveling to alaska in search of work, and her only companion is her dog, lucy. 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. Behalve zijn werk, was dat ook zijn ziel en zaligheid en hij voedde er zijn kinderen skeeter en wendy met veel plezier op. Wendy, a nearpenniless drifter, is traveling to alaska in search of work, and her only companion is her dog, lucy.
Wendy and lucy is a 2008 motionpicture directed by kelly reichardt and starring michelle williams. When she posts bail and returns to retrieve lucy, she finds that the dog is gone, prompting a frantic search for her pet. Wendy and lucy film 2008 kritik trailer news moviejones. When her car breaks down in oregon, the thin fabric of her financial situation comes apart, and she faces a series of increasingly dire challenges. Starring michelle wiliam wendy and lucy is the latest film from director kelly reichardt old joy. Kelly reichardts wendy and lucy is another illustration of how absorbing a film can be when the plot doesnt stand between us and a character. With michelle williams, lucy, david koppell, max clement. Stranded in oregon when her car breaks down and lacking the funds to repair it, wendy faces yet another challenge when lucy, her bestfriend, disappears. Above i compared wendy and lucy to kerrigans film claire dolan, and reichardts image of the working poor or the itinerant laborer begs questions similar to those posed by kerrigans image of the urban sex worker. Rent wendy and lucy 2008 on dvd and bluray dvd netflix. So, she is a teenager in this chapter, when she is starting. Lucy bluray, scarlett johansson, morgan freeman, choi minsik. Lucy thought, her hand was held by wendy and the small girl did nothing to lock the door. The trailer for wendy and lucy in the film, wendy carroll williams is driving to ketchikan, alaska, in hopes of a summer of lucrative work at the northwestern fish cannery, and the start of a new life with her dog, lucy.
By the time wendy gets back to the store lucy is missing and wendys search for her loyal companion begins. Kelly reichardts latest film, wendy and lucy, is 80 minutes long it would fit inside baz luhrmanns australia twice, with room to spare and. In wendy and lucy, michelle williams plays wendy, a lonely young woman in dire need of a couple of hundred bucks and a hug. When her car breaks down and with no money to repair it, she confronts a series of increasingly dire economic decisions with farranging repercussions for herself and lucy. Over the summer, a series of unfortunate happening triggers a financial. Rent wendy and lucy 2008 starring michelle williams and will patton on dvd and bluray.
Hungry, without friends, and almost penniless, wendy will have to resort to desperate measures, only to come face to face with her worst fear. To optimize your experience with your screen reading software, please use our website, which has the same tickets as our and websites. Dreaming of the cold alaskan landscapes and a better future, young wendy carroll and her dog, lucy, become stranded in a small oregon town, when her old, rusty, and decrepit car breaks down. Reichardt and jon raymond adapted the screenplay from his short story train choir. Wendy and lucy isnt an outandout tearjerker like old yeller or marley and me, but the dogs fate is inextricably tied to her owners, and they share the vulnerability.
Wendy and lucy essay the search for the american dream. The film is dominated by simple movements loaded with meaning tone shifts, posture changes that expand to take over the films overall stillness like ripples on a pond. Because the director, kelly reichardt, moves the camera in an appealing direction and there is a good amount of light which attracts the audience. Wendy and lucy is rated r under 17 requires accompanying parent or adult guardian. In kelly reichardts new film, michelle williamss great. I was thinking about a chapter with wendy and lucy for a while know, and how would i go about it.
Wendy and lucy is best karig als het om het verhaal gaat. Without putting too fine a point on it, reichardt subtly underscores the predicament of a person living without any. Sam noemde zijn dochter lucy diamond naar het lied lucy in the sky with diamonds van. Wendy and lucy offers a subdued social critique indie director kelly reichardt makes films about youngish, poorish people with wanderlust. The happenings in wendy and lucy, might seem normal and ordinary. Already perilously close to losing everything, wendy hits a. Find out where wendy and lucy is streaming, if wendy and lucy is on netflix, and get news and updates, on decider. Nowhere wendy came from, nowhere shes going to, no plan except to get her car fixed and feed her dog. Already perilously close to losing everything, wendy hits a bigger bump in the road when her old car breaks down and she is arrested for shoplifting dog food. Wendy and lucy on 35mm with the short narrative film in the skip distance 3. There is no mistaking kelly reichardts politics as an artist. But i know, or feel, everything about wendy at this moment.
Wendy carroll is driving to ketchikan, alaska, in hopes of a summer of lucrative work at the northwestern fish cannery, and the start of a new life with her dog, lucy. Wendy michelle williams, a nearpenniless drifter, is traveling to alaska in search of work, and her only companion is her dog, lucy. Soon enough, it becomes clear that shes little more than a busted timing belt away from utter ruin. Wendy is driving with her dog lucy to alaska, in hopes of a summer of lucrative work at the fish cannery. I am also willing to abide some self indulgence in camera work and a lack of structure in narrative if what i get from the picture is an exegesis on some. It has some swearing, a little drug use and a brief implication of violence, but no nudity, sex or murder. Wendy is a small town girl who packed up her life in a tiny beaten up car to make her way to alaska to find a job with her dog lucy. Lucy let the tub be filled by water and bubbles but soon felt two small hands on her behind, wendy rubbed over lucys behind, she liked the curves of the older girl, lucy slowly turned and wendy went into the filled tub, already stripped of her clothes.
One last dance wendy leigh 1439149992 9781439149997 wendy. The search for the american dream kelly reichardts wendy and lucy is a film so minimalist and real, it is almost uncomfortable to watch. After considering a couple of ideas that i had, i decided to make a small time skip, and have wendy grow a little older for the pairing to work. When discussing this film however one must praise michelle williams. For her emotionally raw performance in blue valentine 2010, which sketched the story of a crumbling marriage, williams captured an oscar nomination for best. Wendy and lucy is a work of selfconscious manipulation, in which reichardt filters out the cinemas subjectivity and personalism. Wendy and lucy addresses issues of sympathy and generosity at the edges of american life, revealing the limits and depths of. Wendy and lucy is not big budget and if that might put some off and if that is the case, you might want to give it a miss. A woman confronts a series of increasingly dire economic decisions. Reilly, lucy liu, queen latifah, renee zellweger and.
The touchingly vulnerable michelle williams stars as wendy, a midwestern girl stuck in an impoverished town, writes philip french. In the films opening seconds, wendy and lucys energising mutual dependence is writ large with a remarkable, inconspicuous tracking shot that captures the pair frolicking through a. Based on a short story by jon raymond, wendy and lucy chronicles the journey of mary carroll michelle williams, an alienated women who sets her sights on alaska in hopes of starting a new life. When her car breaks down in oregon, however, the thin fabric of her financial situation comes apart, and she confronts a series of increasingly dire economic decisions, with farranging repercussions for herself and. It took me two times to sit down and actually start watching the film. Wendy and lucy is another one of the rare gems that would have forever been hidden in my deep, dark attic of unknown, unwatched films, had it not been for letterboxd. With michael ontkean, kate jackson, harry hamlin, wendy hiller.
Filmmaker kelly reichardts certain women, old joy wendy and lucy is a tale of a young woman attempting to gain footing in the world. John raymond i am all for a film that is a slice of life character study about a quirky character in an absurdly banal series of situations or something like that. Sometimes the simplest stories are the most effecting and the simplest characters are the most endearing. Scott s article neoneo realism argues that wendy and lucy.
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