WENDY AND LUCY
Directed by Kelly Reichardt
Kelly Reichardt’s last film was OLD JOY, a small and intimate film about two thirty-something friends who have drifted apart but go on a trip together. It’s a fantastic movie, and one I would thoroughly recommend. Her follow-up is, if anything, even stronger, and continues with one theme from her previous film. Both films concern themselves with an almost invisible area of American society, the kind of wandering slacker, a near-underclass with no money and seemingly little chance of a way out of their situation. In WENDY AND LUCY, Michelle Williams gives a magnificent performance as Wendy, a young girl travelling with only her faithful dog for company. It’s a poetic and brilliant film, shot in a similar fashion to the early films of David Gordon Green (GEORGE WASHINGTON, ALL THE REAL GIRLS) who had a similar focus in his early work. It’s a quietly sensational piece of work, anchored by Williams’ brilliant central turn.
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