
A woman's life is derailed en route to a potentially lucrative summer job. When her car breaks down, and her dog is taken to the pound, the thin fabric of her financial situation comes apart, and she is led through a series of increasingly dire economic decisions.... (Full plot summary below)
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A woman's life is derailed en route to a potentially lucrative summer job. When her car breaks down, and her dog is taken to the pound, the thin fabric of her financial situation comes apart, and she is led through a series of increasingly dire economic decisions.
Leave your thoughts about Wendy and Lucy.
| Commercial Appeal (Memphis, TN)John BeifussI can't think of a more generous or humane filmmaker than Kelly Reichardt. |
| London Evening StandardDerek MalcolmThe story is told with a merciful lack of sentimentality, while Williams's performance seems totally natural. Added to that, Reichardt paints the smalltown scene with an attention to detail that a lot of other films miss. |
| MUBIDaniel KasmanGiving quiet, but pointed consideration to the cinematically ignored economic anguish and wistful unhappiness of one end of American life... |
| Critic's NotebookMartin TsaiIt's a really simple story, but humanity, companionship and will power aren't that complicated either. |
| PopMattersCynthia FuchsWendy serves as both detailed portrait and metaphorical expanse. Her pain is specific but also vague, her loss exact and all-encompassing. |
| IFC.comAlison WillmoreMichelle Williams is in every scene of Wendy and Lucy, and ably carries that burden -- with her dark pixie haircut and cut-offs, she looks frighteningly vulnerable, an indie urchin stuck in circumstances both dire and mundane. |
| TrespassGlenn DunksThe final scenes will tear your heart out, but perhaps not in the way you expect. |
| Denver PostLisa KennedyWendy and Lucy is quiet, deliberate filmmaking. See it knowing you will witness an idiosyncratic take on storytelling by a fundamentally independent filmmaker. |
| Movies.comDave WhiteDecency is heartbreakingly trampled by strict, hard-nosed, boot-straps logic and the kind of hippie freedom nostalgia of movies like Easy Rider is quietly blown away like dust. |
| Seattle Post-IntelligencerSean AxmakerIt'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 her precariousness all the more real. |