Bath Film Festival 2009

Wendy and Lucy

Michelle Williams shines in this multi award-winning follow-up to Old Joy from director Reichardt. She and Williams deliver a quietly poignant film which single-mindedly elucidates a tiny drama in the life of a lost woman and her lost dog independent of plot contrivances. Fleeing a failed past, and pursuing the promise of work in Alaska, Wendy’s car breaks down in Oregon. This, one feels, is just the latest in a series of misfortunes, and the next is just around the corner. When her dog goes missing Wendy’s determined spirit comes to the fore as she launches an all-out search. The incidents are insignificant, the gestures modest, the setting mundane and the colour palette subtle. The film’s emotional punch is delivered without sentimentality, and is all the more powerful for that. CB

For more information about the movie, visit the official site at wendyandlucy.com

To download the Wendy and Lucy film note by Helena Stokes click here!

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