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Dir: Kelly Reichardt.
Cast: Michelle Williams, Will Patton, Will Oldham
Description: Wendy is trapped in Indiana with a sister who doesn't understand her, living in her car with her best friend in the world, a golden retriever called Lucy. Believing she can find work at a fish cannery in Alaska, Wendy hits the road only to find herself stranded in Oregon with no money to buy dog food. Wandering around a place she doesn't know, Wendy is plunged into despair when Lucy goes missing and her loyal companion is nowhere to be found, not even at the dog pound.
Country: US. 2004. 80mins
Dog tale: Michelle Williams in Wendy and Lucy
Nice little films don't do very well at the box office these days. But Kelly Reichardt's touching tale of a young girl and her lost dog at least deserves plaudits for making something of almost nothing.
The girl is Wendy (Michelle Williams, who appeared with Heath Ledger in Brokeback Mountain) and the dog is Lucy, a fetching mongrel who loves her dearly. She is travelling in an old, clapped-out Honda to Alaska in the hope of finding summer work.
It's a long journey and the car breaks down in a small, depressed town in Oregon. Not having enough money for unscheduled stops, she tries to steal some dog food from a local store. The police are called, Lucy goes missing and only a kindly security man (Walter Dalton) tries to help her to track the dog down.
The 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. One for doggie-lovers, perhaps. But also a small gem of its kind.
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